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PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR “LAW AND ORDER”: Interrelationships with System Affirmation and Attitudes Toward Minorities
Author(s) -
CORBETT MICHAEL
Publication year - 1981
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.1745-9125.1981.tb00420.x
Subject(s) - viewpoints , order (exchange) , criminal justice , economic justice , law , criminology , psychology , sociology , political science , social psychology , business , art , finance , visual arts
This study deals with interrelationships among system affirmation, intoler‐ance of minorities or minority viewpoints. and support for a tough role for the police and courts in the criminal justice system. Using data from a survey of “Middletown” (Muncie, Indiana), all three of these concepts are‐as expected‐moderately highly interrelated. Those high in system affir‐mation are also high in intolerance, and they are high in support for a tough role for the police and courts. Further, combining system affirmation and intolerance measures into typologies accentuates the independent effects of these concepts on a hard‐line approach to “law and order” issues.