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McGARRELL, EDMUND F., and MARLA SANDYS. "The Misperception of Public Opinion Toward Capital Punishment." American Behavioral Scientist 39, no. 4 (February 1996): 500–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764296039004012.

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Trahan, Adam, Andrekus Dixon, and Brooke Nodeland. "Public Opinion of Capital Punishment: An Intersectional Analysis of Race, Gender, and Class Effects." Criminal Justice Review 44, no. 4 (December 19, 2018): 452–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734016818818687.

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Extant research on the demographic correlates of capital punishment opinion has separately analyzed race, gender, and class. Intersectionality has shown a flaw of this approach is that these characteristics overlap and interact to shape people’s identities and opinions. Using data from the Cumulative File of the General Social Survey (1972–2016), we regressed capital punishment opinion on respondents’ race, gender, and class intersections. Findings show wide variation in opposition to capital punishment. Implications of the findings, including the superiority of the intersectional approach, are discussed.
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Donovan, James M. "Public Opinion and the French Capital Punishment Debate of 1908." Law and History Review 32, no. 3 (June 26, 2014): 575–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248014000236.

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Academics have traditionally associated capital punishment most closely with authoritarian regimes. They have assumed an incompatibility between the death penalty and the presumably humane values of modern liberal democracy. However, recent scholarship on the United States by David Garland has suggested that a considerable degree of direct democratic control over a justice system actually tends to favor the retention and application of the death penalty. The reason why the United States has retained capital punishment after it has been abolished in other Western nations is not because public opinion is more supportive of the death penalty in America than in Europe or in Canada. Rather, it is because popular control over the justice system is greater in the United States than in other countries and this strengthens the influence of America's retentionist majority. However, the experience of the United States in this regard has not been unique. The same link between democratic control and retention of the death penalty can be seen in the history of the effort to abolish capital punishment in France. In 1908, a bill in the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the French Parliament) to abolish capital punishment was defeated, in large part because of strong opposition from the public. In 1981, majority public opinion in France still favored retention of the death penalty, but in that year, the nation's Parliament defied popular sentiment and outlawed the ultimate punishment. Historians have so far provided little insight into why abolition succeeded in 1981 when it failed in 1908. The explanation for the different outcome appears to have been the greater degree of influence public opinion exerted over the nation's justice system at the turn of the twentieth century than at its end.
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Stevens, Dennis J. "Research Note: The Death Sentence and Inmate Attitudes." Crime & Delinquency 38, no. 2 (April 1992): 272–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128792038002010.

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Public opinion surveys show that the American public favors capital punishment. This article examines the attitudes of 307 inmates about capital punishment. The respondents, especially the most violent offenders, favored capital punishment for some crimes when applied to others, but not to their own criminal activity. Moreover, they did not see capital punishment as a deterrent and implied that it reinforces their violent perspectives. Incarcerated offenders apparently feel as strongly as other citizens about capital punishment, but perhaps for different reasons. The findings suggest that additional studies be conducted with violent offenders to determine if any punishment can deter violent crime.
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Andreescu, Viviana, and Tom “Tad” Hughes. "Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan." Punishment & Society 22, no. 5 (April 1, 2020): 573–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474520915572.

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Based on the Japanese General Social Survey conducted in 2010 on a representative sample of adults, the present analysis intends to identify the factors more likely to predict variations in death penalty attitudes in Japan. Compared to death penalty proponents, those who oppose capital punishment are less likely to express punitive attitudes in general and to be dissatisfied with government expenditures on crime control. Relative to retentionists, abolitionists tend to have a higher level of social trust, show a higher level of support for public participation in the criminal justice process, are more likely to practice a religion, and are younger. Instrumental factors, such as victimization and fear of crime, symbolic factors, such as institutional trust, trust in the judiciary, and the police, as well as gender do not differentiate death penalty opponents from supporters. The results of the multinomial logistic regression show that residents who did not express agreement or disagreement with the death penalty have more in common with those who oppose capital punishment than with those who favor it. Although the majority of the population (65.2%) expressed support for death penalty, one in four respondents (26.1%) remained ambivalent regarding the use of capital punishment. Additionally, most of those who expressed an opinion (50.5%) said they would hesitate to recommend death, if chosen to serve in the newly instituted citizen judge system. Findings suggest that public support for death penalty is not as strong in the country as the Japanese government claims and that it requires further exploration.
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Caron, Christian. "Public Opinion and Death Penalty Policy Under Direct Democracy Institutions: A Longitudinal Analysis of the American States." American Politics Research 49, no. 1 (July 30, 2020): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532673x20943560.

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Capital punishment remains legal in most U.S. states even though only a small number of them regularly impose it. I attribute the persistence of death penalty statutes to the existence of direct democracy institutions in about half the states. Applying a longitudinal research design that leverages annual estimates of state death penalty opinion, I show that these institutions strengthen the connection between public opinion and capital punishment’s legality, indicating that they foster policy responsiveness. By extension, because citizens have generally favored capital punishment, I find that direct democracy states are more likely to have the death penalty. I also demonstrate that direct democracy increases the likelihood that policy will be congruent with majority opinion, especially in states where opinion leans strongly in one direction. The representation-enhancing effect of direct democracy, however, does not extend to the punishment’s application, as measured by states’ issuance of death sentences.
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JONES, PETER R. "It's Not What You Ask, It's the Way That You Ask It: Question Form and Public Opinion on the Death Penalty." Prison Journal 74, no. 1 (March 1994): 32–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032855594074001003.

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For all their faults, public opinion polls are of great importance to public policymaking, especially on issues that are highly visible and controversial. In the context of capital punishment, researchers have repeatedly documented the strong relationship that exists among public, judicial, and legislative opinion. During the past two decades, popular public opinion poll results in the United States have shown considerable growth in the support of capital punishment. Although criticized as grossly overly simplistic, these polls are often employed to show that legislative and judicial decision making is “grounded” in consensual public opinion. A number of studies have questioned the validity of opinion polls as measures of attitudes on this issue—with apparent support for capital punishment dropping precipitously when alternative options, such as life imprisonment with absolutely no possibility of parole, are provided. The present article suggests that we are misinterpreting poll information in a more basic way—by effectively dissuading a “no opinion“ response through the use of a standard “no filter” question format. Even without providing additional information or alternatives to respondents, the present research suggests that reliance on standard questions that simply seek a favor/oppose response can overestimate support for and opposition to the death penalty. More important, the number of people with no clear opinion on this issue can almost double, simply by employing a different question format. Put simply, one of the most important determinants of public opinion on the death penalty is the way in which we pose the question.
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Vogel, Brenda L., and Ronald E. Vogel. "The age of death: Appraising public opinion of juvenile capital punishment." Journal of Criminal Justice 31, no. 2 (March 2003): 169–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0047-2352(02)00223-4.

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Smith, M. Dwayne, and James Wright. "Capital punishment and public opinion in thepost‐Furmanera: Trends and analyses." Sociological Spectrum 12, no. 2 (April 1992): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732173.1992.9981992.

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Harris, Philip W. "Over-simplification and error in public opinion surveys on capital punishment." Justice Quarterly 3, no. 4 (December 1, 1986): 429–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418828600089051.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Capital punishment Victoria Public opinion"

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Hall, Patrick Thomas More. "Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2004. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,155.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Orleans, 2004.
Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science."--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Schlaupitz, Sheila M. "Race, Religion, And Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment: A Test Of Attribution Theory." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000228.

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Lee, Gavin. "DEATH PENALTY KNOWLEDGE, OPINION, AND REVENGE: A TEST OF THE MARSHALL HYPOTHESES IN A TIME OF FLUX." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2781.

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This thesis tests the three hypotheses derived from the written opinion of Justice Thurgood Marshall in Furman v Georgia in 1972. Subjects completed questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the fall 2006 semester. Experimental group subjects were enrolled in a death penalty class, while control group subjects were enrolled in another criminal justice class. The death penalty class was the experimental stimulus. Findings provided strong support for the first and third hypotheses, i.e., subjects were generally lacking in death penalty knowledge before the experimental stimulus, and death penalty proponents who scored "high" on a retribution index did not change their death penalty opinions despite exposure to death penalty knowledge. Marshall's second hypothesis--that death penalty knowledge and death penalty support were inversely related--was not supported by the data. Two serendipitous findings were that death penalty proponents who scored "low" on a retribution index also did not change their death penalty opinions after becoming more informed about the subject, and that death penalty knowledge did not alter subjects' initial retributive positions. Suggestions for future research are provided.
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Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
Health and Public Affairs
Criminal Justice MS
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Godcharles, Brian. "Effect of Empathy on Death Penalty Support in Relation to the Racial Divide and Gender Gap." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5953.

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This study aimed to examine previous empirical literature indicating that death penalty support contains a divide among Blacks and Whites and a gap among males and females. Previous literature has indicated that there has been a persistent racial divide and gender gap in death penalty support that has spanned over 60 years of research. Attempts to attenuate these divides have failed to fully explain why Whites are more likely than Blacks to support the death penalty and men are more likely than women to support the death penalty. This study proposes the use of empathy to control for these divides because research has indicated that those who are more empathic tend to be less punitive. Using data collected from a survey conducted on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a paid task website, this study attempted to attenuate the racial divide and gender gap by controlling for empathy. The sample consisted of 403 usable surveys that contained questions that measured sociodemographic characteristics, three measurements of empathy (cognitive, affective and ethnocultural), death penalty support, and attribution styles. The results indicated that there was not a racial divide or gender gap in death penalty support despite over 60 years of research indicating otherwise. Furthermore, this study failed to find a significant relationship between cognitive and affective empathy with death penalty support. This study did find a relationship between attribution styles and death penalty support as well as ethnocultural empathy with death penalty support. Individuals who scored higher on the situational attribution style were less likely to support the death penalty. Those who scored higher on the ethnocultural empathy scale were also less likely to support the death penalty. Future research should refrain from testing with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as was not generalizable to the United States population. Research should be continued on different samples that have been shown to be more reliable than online surveys. Finally, research should be continued beyond empathy to examine what effects other controls have on the racial divide and gender gap in death penalty support.
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Savon, Alexander Able. "The Effect Of Knowledge Gain On Capital Punishment: A Partial Test Of The Marshall Hypothesis." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001181.

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Burgason, Kyle Aaron. "Examination of the Death Penalty: Public Opinion of a Northeast Tennessee University Student Sample." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1744.

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How society views the use of the death penalty as a means of punishment greatly affects the decisions of lawmakers, politicians who use it as a platform for election, and the criminals who commit the crime of murder. This study used 40 different vignettes involving real-life murder scenarios in order for participants to form a more precise opinion of what the correct punishment for the crime should be. Given a choice between the death penalty, life without the possibility of parole, a prison term of their choosing, or other, participants were asked to assign a sanction for each vignette. Respondents were asked to answer demographic questions about themselves in order for these variables to be regressed to examine how their status relates to their opinion of the death penalty as a punishment for murder. Statistical analysis showed income level, political affiliation, and religious affiliation to be significant variables. Analysis of the vignettes themselves revealed substantial variation in individual's willingness to apply the death penalty across various types of murder.
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Tumwine, William. "The role of public opinion in court decisions on the legality of the death penalty : a look at Uganda and South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1242.

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"Public opinion finds its way into the justice system and finally to the decision making platform of the courts through various channels. These include public opinion polls, legislative debates, writings of jurists, social pressures, political situations and referendum on legal issues. Regarding the death penalty, the role of public opinion becomes more debatable because as Kakooza explains, there is a difficulty of addressing death penalty issues as values, national aspirations and conditions of social intercourse vary from society to society. The death penalty touches life, which is the most important of all human rights. It, therefore, remains debatable as to whether it is the courts or the people that may decide the legality of criminal sanctions like the death penalty. Protection of judicial independence conflicts with the need for legitimacy, given that courts are occupied by un-elected judges. While sticking to legalistic and official positions, courts must keep in touch with the public since they need the latter's approval for decisions to be respected and implemented. It is also not clear whether, and if so, to what extent, courts may rely upon public opinion in making decisions, thus the importance of assessing the role it sould play and coming out with a way forward. ... Chapter one comprises the background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, aims and objectives of the study, literature review, methodology and limitations of the study. Chapter two is a discussion of the role public opinion ought to play in court decisions in general, and decisions on the legality of the death penatly in particular. Chapter three is an analysis of the actual influence of public opinion on court decisions on the legality of the death penalty. It also has a comparison of court practice in Uganda and South Africa and includes a critique. Chapter four is a presentation of arguments for and against the role of pulic opinion in court decisions. Chapter five contains conclusions from the research findings and recommendations on how public opinion should be treated in court decisions generally, and the legality of the death penalty in particular." -- Introduction.
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006.
Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Raymond A. Atuguba at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon
http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html
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Colyer, Timothy P. "Estimating the Effects of Condemned Inmates' Last Statements on Public Opinion About the Death Penalty: A Factorial Survey Approach." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5169.

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There has been an increase in writings that address the last statements of condemned offenders. Many of these writings suggest that exposure to the humanity sometimes exhibited in these last statements may steer public opinion against the death penalty. This dissertation tests this suggestion by exposing 400 participants to randomly generated vignettes containing various capital crimes, demographic characteristics, and last statements. The survey data are analyzed utilizing multilevel modeling. Study results include the effects of varying levels of demonstrated humanity in the last statements of condemned offenders on public opinion, and whether specific demographic characteristics appear to influence study participant responses. Findings showed no statistically significant results that indicate any effect on death penalty opinion as a result of reading last statements demonstrating humanity. Condemned inmates who did not provide a statement, or stated they had nothing to say, elicited higher levels of confidence that executing them was the right thing to do. Condemned inmates who claimed innocence in their last statements were associated with the lowest level of respondent confidence that execution was the right thing to do, and a higher level of support for life without parole as an alternative punishment. Recommendations for further research are discussed.
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Sociology
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Sociology
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Dahl, Ronald Joseph. "Barring the Mentally Ill from the Death Penalty: A National Survey." NSUWorks, 2009. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/24.

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Many aspects of capital punishment have been debated extensively, such as its legality and cruelty. One such aspect is the role a defendant's mental functioning should play in the proceedings. In recent years the Supreme Court has barred the mentally retarded and juveniles from the death penalty due to their cognitive limitations and problems with behavioral control (Slobogin, 2003). This reasoning has prompted many in the fields of mental health and law to advocate for a similar bar for offenders with severe mental illness since their impairments create similar problems in judgment and behavioral control. The Supreme Court cited public consensus as its grounds in banning the mentally retarded and juveniles from sentences of death; however, public consensus on mentally ill capital offenders is not quite as clear. Few attempts have gauged public opinion on sentencing severely mentally ill offenders to death, and the little research that does exist has produced conflicting results. While polls show that Americans oppose the death penalty for the severely mental ill (Gallup, 2008), the literature shows that jurors are more likely to sentence these defendants to death (Charlotte School of Law [CSL], 2006). Second to the issue of barring the severely mentally ill from the death penalty is the issue of what mental health factors would be considered severe enough to qualify for a bar. There has been no previous research to gauge public opinion on these issues. Surveys were constructed to gauge opinion on the issue and were mailed randomly to 1,640 people throughout the United States. A total of 202 surveys were returned completed. Support was found for a bar from the death penalty for the mentally ill. However, the mental health factors that should comprise a bar received varied support and were less clear in determining which should comprise a bar. When given alternatives to a death sentence, participants overwhelmingly chose some type of life sentence. Public opinion appears to be an important aspect in the imposition of capital punishment upon the mentally ill.
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Bartlett, Tess. "The power of penal populism : public influences on penal and sentencing policy from 1999 to 2008 : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Criminology /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1086.

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Books on the topic "Capital punishment Victoria Public opinion"

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McKenzie, Helen. Capital punishment in Canada. Ottawa, Ont: Library of Parliament, Research Branch, 1987.

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Parliament, Canada Library of. Capital punishment in Canada. Ottawa: Library of Parliament, 1987.

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Capital punishment in Japan. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

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Berlatsky, Noah. Capital punishment. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010.

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Commission, New Jersey Death Penalty Study. Public hearing before New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission: Testimony concerning whether the death penalty serves a legitimate penological intent, such as deterrence; whether the penological interest in executing some of those guilty of murder is sufficiently compelling that the risk of an irreversible mistake is acceptable; whether the death penalty is consistent with evolving standards of decency : [July 19, 2006, Trenton, New Jersey]. Trenton, N.J: The Unit, 2006.

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Seleoane, Mandla. Death penalty: Let the people decide. Lee Glen, Florida [South Africa]: Vivlia Publishers, 1996.

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Lithuania. The Lithuanian policy on death penalty. 2nd ed. Vilnius: Governmental Information Center, 1996.

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Commission, New Jersey Death Penalty Study. Public hearing before New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission: Testimony concerning whether the selection of defendants for capital trials is arbitrary, unfair, or discriminatory; whether there is unfair, arbitrary, or discriminatory variability in the sentencing phase or at any stage of the process; and whether there is a significant difference in the crimes of those selected for the punishment of death as opposed to those who receive life in prison : [September 27, 2006, Trenton, New Jersey]. Trenton, NJ: The Unit, 2006.

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Divided passions: Public opinions on abortion and the death penalty. Boston, Mass: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

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Japan. Naikaku Sōri Daijin Kanbō. Kōhōshitsu. Hanzai to shobatsu ni kansuru seron chōsa. Tōkyō: Naikaku Sōri Daijin Kanbō Kōhōshitsu, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Capital punishment Victoria Public opinion"

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Butler, Leah, James D. Unnever, Francis T. Cullen, and Angela J. Thielo. "Public Opinion about the Death Penalty." In Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment, 55–70. 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315624723-4.

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Schabas, William A. "Public opinion and the death penalty." In Capital Punishment, 309–31. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511489273.014.

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Bakken, Børge. "Capital Punishment Reform, Public Opinion, and Penal Elitism in the People’s Republic of China." In Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia, 187–204. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685776.003.0011.

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"Sharon Casey and Philip Mohr (2005), 'Law-and-Order Politics, Public-Opinion Polls and the Media', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 12, pp. 141-5\." In The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 3, 497–508. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315238913-38.

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