Explaining Capital Punishment Support in an Abolitionist Country: The Case of the Netherlands

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 605-622

  Hessing, Dick J ^a,b   De Keijser, Jan W ^b   Elffers, Henk ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital punishment support; Criminal justice attitudes; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUSTICE; LAW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFENDER; PERSEVERATION; POLITICS; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0347525796     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAHU.0000004889.11826.de     Document Type: Review

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