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T1  - Attitudes and public punishment preferences : Finnish results of Scandinavian sense of justice research 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/270213 
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A1  - Kääriäinen, Juha Tapio 
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Y1  - 2018 
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AB  - Opinion polls have repeatedly shown that populations favour severe penalties for offenders. However, surveys using a case vignette method, where the attributes of the case described to the respondents are varied, produce more versatile results. Such research gives a nuanced picture of punitive attitudes. In this study, the sentence decisions of laypeople who are informed about the offender’s criminal history, ethnic background, gender, social issues and substance abuse were examined. A representat... 
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KW  - 5141 Sociology; attitudes; punishment preferences; factorial survey; sentencing; Finland 
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