RT Article
T1 The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968–2016
JF Punishment & society
VO 24
IS 2
SP 196
OP 220
A1 Brown, Elizabeth K.
A2 Silver, Jasmine R
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1796953156
AB The present research for the first time uses Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) as an analytical framework for evaluating the moral foundations of prescriptive presidential party platform statements on crime control from 1968 through 2016. We use summative content analysis to consider the politics of crime control at a broad, foundational level. Our analysis brings data to bear on previously observed trends in the politics of crime control (e.g., Democrats became increasingly conservative on crime in the 1990s) and deepens our understanding by illuminating and contextualizing the latent ideologies and implicit moral orientations to crime of both parties over time. Our findings speak to the prominence of certain moral foundations, authority and care in particular, in partisan frameworks on crime control and indicate trends in reliance on individualizing foundations (fairness and care) and binding foundations (authority, loyalty, purity). We consider the implications of these findings for future research on the politics of crime control.
K1 Qualitative
K1 Politics
K1 Party platforms
K1 Moral Foundations
K1 Crime Control
DO 10.1177/1462474520966979