Salvation or damnation?: Religion and correctional ideology
Fundamentalist affiliation and religious beliefs are generally related to more punitive attitudes toward criminals. Fundamentalists also tend to attribute criminality to individual dispositional factors, and in turn, such factors are related to punitiveness. Recently, it has also been found that com...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2003
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| In: |
American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2003, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-35 |
| Further subjects: | B
Death Penalty
B Young Offender B Religious Belief B Attribution Style B Harsh Punishment |
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| Summary: | Fundamentalist affiliation and religious beliefs are generally related to more punitive attitudes toward criminals. Fundamentalists also tend to attribute criminality to individual dispositional factors, and in turn, such factors are related to punitiveness. Recently, it has also been found that compassionate dimensions of religion are related to treatment-oriented policies. It is still not clear which dimensions of religion are related to punitive or treatment ideology and what effects religious variables may have when tested against secular concerns about crime and crime attributions. In the present research, we test three models of punitiveness and one model of rehabilitation with demographic, secular, religious, and attributional factors. We found that those for whom religion is salient in their daily lives tend to believe that the death penalty should be reserved for older offenders and that those who believe in a punitive God tend to support harsher punishments. |
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| ISSN: | 1936-1351 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American journal of criminal justice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF02885750 |