More than a feeling: Integrating empathy into the study of lawmaking, lawbreaking, and reactions to lawbreaking

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-26

  Posick, Chad ^a   Rocque, Michael ^a   Rafter, Nicole ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

criminal justice; criminology; emotion; empathy

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINOLOGY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; OFFENDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIALIZATION;

ATTITUDE; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINALS; CRIMINOLOGY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PRISONERS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 84888315074     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X12465411     Document Type: Article

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