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Changing Attitudes to Punishment : Public Opinion, Crime and Criminal Justice.
Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cullompton :
Willan Pub.,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Changing Attitudes to Punishment; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Foreword by Rob Allen; 1 Public attitudes to punishment: the context; 2 Measuring attitudes to sentencing; 3 Public opinion and the nature of community penalties: international findings; 4 Cross-national attitudes to punishment; 5 The evolution of public attitudes to punishment in Western and Eastern Europe; 6 Public and judicial attitudes to punishment in Switzerland; 7 Public support for correctional rehabilitation in America: change or consistency?
- 8 Attitudes to punishment in the US
- punitive and liberal opinions9 How malleable are attitudes to crime and punishment? Findings from a British deliberative poll; 10 Improving public knowledge about crime and punishment; 11 Strategies for changing public attitudes to punishment; 12 Privileging public attitudes to sentencing?; Index.