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The world is not as it should be: Punitiveness as a response to societal change

February 8, 2010

….Findings – The Sources of Support for Public Punitiveness

The researchers found that public punitiveness is linked most strongly to judgements about social conditions and to underlying social values. Concerns about crime risk and the failure of the justice system had almost no impact on support for three strikes. The reasons put forward in support of three strikes, were not in fact, the factors underlying public support. What they found was that:

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