British Journal of Criminology Advance Access originally published online on May 26, 2005
British Journal of Criminology 2006 46(1):119-130; doi:10.1093/bjc/azi048
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The British Journal of Criminology 46:119-130 (2006)
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Sources of Variation in Pro-Death Penalty Attitudes in China
An Exploratory Study of Chinese Students at Home and Abroad
* Bin Liang, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa; Hong Lu, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Terance D. Miethe, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Lening Zhang, Saint Francis University. Authors of the article contributed to the article equally and their order is arranged alphabetically. This research is partially supported by a Stimulation, Implementation, Transition and Enhancement Award (SITE) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to the second author. The views expressed in this article, however, are solely those of the authors.
Address for correspondence: Hong Lu, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154–5009; telephone: 702-895-0242; fax: 702-895-0252; email: hlu{at}ccmail.nevada.edu.
This paper examines Chinese students’ attitudes about the death penalty in contemporary China. Drawing upon Western public opinion research on the death penalty, samples of Chinese college students at home and abroad are used to explore the magnitude of their pro-death penalty attitudes and sources of variation in these opinions. Both groups of Chinese students are found to support the death penalty across different measures of this concept. Several individual and contextual factors are correlated with pro-death penalty attitudes, but the belief in the specific deterrent effect of punishments was the only variable that had a significant net effect on these attitudes in our multivariate analysis. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for future research on public opinion about crime and punishment in China.
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