Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, USA.
University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2024 Jan;68(1):107-130. doi: 10.1177/0306624X211066827. Epub 2021 Dec 19.
Despite rich literature on public opinion on capital punishment, only a few studies examined people's death penalty support within specific contexts. None have explored if correlates that influence people's opinion would hold the same effect in general questions and specific case scenarios. Similarly, the Marshall hypotheses have not been tested with specific crime scenarios. Based on a sample of 1,077 students in a quasiexperimental design, this study contrasts Chinese students' death penalty opinion in general questions with a specific crime scenario, and tests the Marshall hypotheses with the latter. Compared to their support in general questions, students' support for death sentences dropped significantly in the specific crime scenario. Multivariate analyses showed that different factors influenced people's decisions in the general questions and in the specific case, and respondents' choices of preferred punishment in the specific crime scenario failed to lend support to the Marshall hypotheses.
尽管有大量关于公众对死刑看法的文献，但只有少数研究考察了在特定背景下人们对死刑的支持。没有人研究过影响人们意见的相关性因素在一般性问题和具体案例情景中是否具有相同的效果。同样，马歇尔假设也没有用具体的犯罪情景来检验。本研究基于一项准实验设计的 1077 名学生样本，对比了中国学生在一般性问题和特定犯罪情景中对死刑的看法，并在后一种情景下检验了马歇尔假设。与他们在一般性问题中的支持相比，学生在特定犯罪情景中对死刑判决的支持明显下降。多元分析表明，不同的因素影响了人们在一般性问题和具体案例中的决策，而受访者在具体犯罪情景中对首选惩罚的选择也没有支持马歇尔假设。
