RT Article
T1 Sources of judicial attitudes toward criminal sanctioning
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 11
IS 2
SP 151
OP 164
A1 Frank, James
A2 Cullen, Francis T.
A2 Cullen, John B.
LA English
YR 1987
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764205316
AB Through a 1979 survey of 89 Illinois judges, the present study attempts to assess how various social, political, and occupational factors influence judicial attitudes toward criminal sanctioning. Specifically, our analysis examined the relative impact of background characteristics (e.g. age, community context) versus occupational variables (e.g., years on the bench, former prosecutor and/or defense attorney) on five sanctioning scales: rehabilitation, punishment, capital punishment, punishing white-collar offenders, and the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The analysis revealed that political orientation was the most important variable examined. Political ideology was found to be related to all but one of the sanctioning scales (punishing white-collar offenders). In contrast, the social and occupational variables generally were not significantly related to judicial attitudes on the purposes of sentencing.
K1 Criminal Sanction
K1 Defense Attorney
K1 Criminal Case
K1 Political Orientation
K1 Capital Punishment
DO 10.1007/BF02885653