This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making,
capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates. It also …

The interplay of sanctions, perceptions, and crime has special significance in criminology
and is central to a long tradition of perceptual deterrence research as well as to more recent …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 YOUTH AND CRIME Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE
Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global …

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

Objectives A substantial body of literature indicates that certain forms of media consumption
may increase anxiety about crime and support for social controls. However, few studies have …

The notion that the media's principal role regarding public opinion is reinforcement of pre-
existing attitudes–and that this idea is relative inconsequential politically–is pervasive …

Through this study, we shed new light on a key line of inquiry for criminologists: the way the
media influence the public's understanding of crime and justice. We argue for expanding the …

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C. Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to
explore the consequences of what he terms America's" addiction to incarceration." …

Purpose Previous studies on police use of fatal force in the United States are limited to
specific cities. This is the first analysis of its type to rely on incident-level national data and to …

This study examines whether the number of citizens fatally shot by police in the United
States has changed significantly since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri …