God’s penology: Belief in a masculine God predicts support for harsh criminal punishment and militarism

Prior research demonstrates that multiple dimensions of religiosity significantly predict punitive attitudes and militarism. This study highlights the importance of believing in a masculine God, an aspect of religiosity with a robust and consistent relationship to punitiveness and militarism, but wh...

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Authors: Baker, Joseph O. 1983- (Author) ; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-160
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
war on terror
Capital Punishment
Gender
Images of God
Masculinity
Militarism
Penal Populism
Punitiveness
Religion