University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2021 Dec;65(16):1823-1846. doi: 10.1177/0306624X20983742. Epub 2020 Dec 21.
Research exploring attitudes toward the death penalty is common in the field of criminal justice. Additionally, a substantial body of literature has examined public perceptions of sex offenders and punishment in the U.S. Unfortunately, few studies have sought to examine perceptions of the death penalty in relation to sexual offending. This study contributes to the literature by examining perceptions of the college students at a mid-sized university in the Southeastern United States as they relate to support for the death penalty in cases of sexual assault across victim age categories. Findings suggest that respondent perceptions are shaped by biological sex, political affiliation, college major, fear of crime, and parents' level of education, and these relationships are uniform across victim age categories. Further, support for the death penalty appears inversely related with victim age.
研究探索死刑态度在刑事司法领域是很常见的。此外，大量文献研究了美国公众对性犯罪者和惩罚的看法。不幸的是，很少有研究试图研究对性犯罪的死刑看法。本研究通过考察美国东南部一所中型大学的大学生对性侵犯案件的死刑看法，为文献做出了贡献，这些看法涉及到不同受害年龄类别的支持死刑的情况。研究结果表明，受访者的看法受到生物性别、政治派别、大学专业、对犯罪的恐惧以及父母教育程度的影响，这些关系在不同的受害年龄类别中是一致的。此外，对死刑的支持似乎与受害者的年龄成反比。
