College Education, Politics, and Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

American Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI:10.1007/s12103-024-09782-8

Amy L. Anderson, Philip Schwadel

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We argue that the decrease in support for the death penalty associated with college education should differ across political groups given the salience of political identities in the United States. We expect the negative association between education and views of capital punishment is minimized for Republicans and conservatives, especially among White Americans. We use 2002–2018 General Social Survey data and present marginal effects at the mean from the logistic regression models and tests of first and second differences from race-specific interaction models. Moderation analyses demonstrate that the association between education and reduced support for capital punishment is robust among White Democrats and liberals, and relatively weak among White Republicans and especially conservatives. Among non-Whites, the association between higher education and support for capital punishment does not vary by party but it is in the opposite directions for liberals and conservatives. We discuss the implication of the results for party and orientation and for White and non-White respondents, highlighting the rigidity of capital punishment support among political conservatives even as support decreases among other groups.

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大学教育、政治与对死刑的态度

我们认为，鉴于美国政治身份的显著性，不同政治团体对与大学教育相关的死刑支持的减少应该有所不同。我们期望教育与死刑观点之间的负面联系在共和党和保守派中被最小化，尤其是在美国白人中。我们使用2002-2018年的综合社会调查数据，并从逻辑回归模型和种族特定相互作用模型的第一和第二差异检验中得出边际效应的均值。温和派分析表明，教育与减少对死刑的支持之间的联系在白人民主党人和自由派中非常明显，而在白人共和党人，尤其是保守派中相对较弱。在非白人群体中，高等教育与支持死刑之间的联系并不因党派而异，但在自由派和保守派中则相反。我们讨论了结果对党派和取向的影响，以及白人和非白人受访者的影响，强调了政治保守派对死刑支持的刚性，即使其他群体的支持也在减少。

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American Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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11.30

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5.40%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Criminal Justice, the official journal of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, is a peer reviewed publication; manuscripts go through a blind review process. The focus of the Journal is on a wide array of criminal justice topics and issues. Some of these concerns include items pertaining to the criminal justice process, the formal and informal interplay between system components, problems and solutions experienced by various segments, innovative practices, policy development and implementation, evaluative research, the players engaged in these enterprises, and a wide assortment of other related interests. The American Journal of Criminal Justice publishes original articles that utilize a broad range of methodologies and perspectives when examining crime, law, and criminal justice processing.