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Changing attitudes to punishment : public opinion, crime and justice / edited by Julian V. Roberts and Mike Hough.

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Changing attitudes to punishment : public opinion, crime and justice / edited by Julian V. Roberts and Mike Hough.
Publication
Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Hough, J. M.
  • Roberts, Julian V.
Description
xviii, 236 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Throughout the Western world public opinion plays an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls demonstrate that the public knows little about crime or justice. This title addresses the problem by drawing upon research from a number of different countries.
Alternative Title
Public opinion, crime and justice
Subject
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > Public opinion
  • Punishment > Public opinion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Public attitudes to punishment : the context / Julian V. Roberts and Mike Hough -- Measuring attitudes to sentencing / Loretta J. Stalans -- Public opinion and the nature of community penalties : international findings / Julian V. Roberts -- Cross-national attitudes to punishment / Pat Mayhew and John van Kesteren -- The evolution of public attitudes to punishment in Western and Eastern Europe / Helmut Kury, Joachim Oberfell-Fuchs and Ursula Smartt -- Public and judicial attitudes to punishment in Switzerland / André Kuhn -- Public support for correctional rehabilitation in America : change or consistency? / Francis T. Cullen ... [et al.] -- Attitudes to punishment in the US-- punitive and liberal opinions / John Doble -- How malleable are attitudes to crime and punishment? Findings from a British deliberative poll / Mike Hough and Alison Park -- Improving public knowledge about crime and punishment / Catriona Mirrlees-Black -- Strategies for changing public attitudes to punishment / David Indermaur and Mike Hough -- Privileging public attitudes to sentencing? / Rod Morgan.
ISBN
  • 1843920034 (cased)
  • 1843920026 (paper)
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Harvard Library