More than ten years after: The long-term stability of informed death penalty opinions

Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 307-327

  Bohm, Robert M ^a   Vogel, Brenda L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom knowledge; Death penalty; Death penalty options; Opinion change; The Marshall hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242802190     PISSN: 00472352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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