Title

Public tolerance for community-based sanctions

Abstract

Based on a factorial design survey of 237 Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio, residents, we assessed not only whether respondents preferred, but also "tolerated" or viewed as acceptable, community-based sanctions. Rating vignettes in which the offender engaged in either burglary or robbery, a slight majority of the respondents favored a sentence involving incarceration. Even so, a sizable minority of the sample preferred to sanction offenders in the community, and tolerance for such a sanction was widespread. There was little support, however, for sanctions that did not involve the close supervision of the offender. We suggest that community-based sanctions will be embraced by the public only to the extent that a persuasive case can be made that the sanction punishes, restrains, and changes offenders-in short, that it "works." © 1997 Sage Publications, Inc.

Publication Date

12-1-1997

Publication Title

Prison Journal

Volume

77

Issue

1

Number of Pages

6-26

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0032855597077001002

Socpus ID

0012028430 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0012028430

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS