Purpose This study examines the relationship between police culture and support for
corruption among Ghanaian police officers. Design/methodology/approach The study draws …

Australia has nine different legislative regimes for sentencing and parole, as well as eight
prison regimes; it has therefore been described as an ideal penal laboratory. This paper …

Public and clinician attitudes are important to consider when studying the reentry of
individuals who sexually offend. Uninformed public attitudes drive the continued use of …

The present study explores individuals' desires for social distance from violent versus non-
violent offenders and investigates whether disclosure of the offender's therapy completion …

Research consistently finds that while the public expresses concerns about sentence
leniency in the abstract, when presented with a specific case, people are typically not …

This article examines public attitudes to the sentencing offences associated with the rioting
which took place in England in August 2011. Findings are based on a nationally …

There is a lack of understanding concerning the differences between laypeople's and
professional judges' conceptions of justifications for sentencing. We conducted an online …

Methods Using a vignette study paradigm, a general public sample of 330 participants were
asked to make hypothetical punishment decisions to reduce crime (whether or not to double …

Three decades of research on public perceptions in Canada has fundamentally shifted
academic and policy approaches to understanding public views of crime and punishment …

Theoretically, people's justification of a sentencing decision involves a hybrid structure
comprising retribution, incapacitation, general deterrence, and rehabilitation. In this study, a …