‘Once a sex offender always a sex offender’?: essentialism and attitudes towards criminal justice policy

The present research explores the proposition that psychological essentialism determines how we understand the nature of some types of crime and associated attitudes regarding how perpetrators should be treated. Specifically, we argue that people believe certain crimes are highly essentialized, and...

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Main Author: De Vel-Palumbo, Melissa (Author)
Contributors: Brewer, Marilynn B. ; Howarth, Laura
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Psychology, crime & law
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Attitudes
Crime
Implicit theories
Public Opinion
Sex Offenses