Berryessa Colleen M
School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ USA.
J Exp Criminol. 2022;18(4):783-824. doi: 10.1007/s11292-021-09466-x. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
This study examines US popular support for mechanisms that provide early release and "second chances" for individuals serving long-term prison sentences.
An experiment using a national sample of US adults (=836).
Data showed moderate, consistent levels of general support for using a range of commonly available "second chance" mechanisms that also extended to offenders convicted of both violent and non-violent offenses. Levels of support significantly varied by race, gender, and age. There was significantly more support for using certain mechanisms in response to the trafficking of serious drugs, which was fully mediated by participants' views on the importance of the cost of incarceration.
Members of the public appear open and supportive to utilizing "second chance" mechanisms in a variety of contexts. Yet the cost of incarceration to taxpayers appears to particularly motivate increased public interest in using such mechanisms for offenders convicted of the trafficking of serious drugs.
本研究考察了美国民众对为长期服刑人员提供提前释放和“第二次机会”机制的支持情况。
采用美国成年人全国样本（=836）进行实验。
数据显示，对于使用一系列常见的“第二次机会”机制，民众普遍支持程度适中且较为一致，这种支持也延伸至暴力犯罪和非暴力犯罪的罪犯。支持程度因种族、性别和年龄存在显著差异。对于应对严重毒品贩运使用某些机制的支持明显更多，这完全由参与者对监禁成本重要性的看法所介导。
公众似乎对在各种情况下利用“第二次机会”机制持开放和支持态度。然而，纳税人承担的监禁成本似乎特别促使公众对将此类机制用于因严重毒品贩运被定罪的罪犯的兴趣增加。
