RT Article
T1 Support for the Death Penalty Reinstatement as a Protest Attitude: The Role of Political Trust
JF International criminal justice review
VO 33
IS 2
SP 160
OP 178
A1 Peshkopia, Ridvan
A2 Trahan, Adam
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840102489
AB We argue that support for the reinstatement of capital punishment might reflect protest against an untrustworthy judicial system, framing this as a protest attitude. We test our argument with data from a probability sample of 2,366 respondents in Albania collected in 2015 via a cell phone random digit dialing technique. We found that respondents’ support for the reinstatement of the death penalty is associated with lack of trust in the country’s judiciary but not necessarily respondents prioritizing the war on crime. Also, we found that skepticism toward European Union (EU) membership conditionality as a drive for the country’s democratization is a good predictor of support for the reinstatement of the death penalty, but there is no evidence that respondents related their support for the country’s EU membership with support for capital punishment.
K1 protest attitude
K1 prioritizing war on crime
K1 EU membership conditionality
K1 trust in politicians
K1 trust in the judiciary
K1 death penalty reinstatement
DO 10.1177/1057567720963158