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JAPANESE AND AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Author(s) -
ALSTON JON P.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1976.tb00018.x
Subject(s) - punitive damages , capital punishment , punishment (psychology) , sample (material) , capital (architecture) , white (mutation) , demographic economics , psychology , criminology , political science , social psychology , economics , law , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , gene
Japanese and Americans are compared in terms of the extent each sample believes that capital punishment should be abolished, Blacks and white American females are more likely to approve of the abolition of capital punishment. No differences by sex were found in the Japanese sample. For both countries, those who are younger and more educated hold less punitive attitudes The Japanese as a whole are less likely than Americans to approve of the abolition of capital punishment. Problems found in cross‐cultural secondary analysis are discussed .