RT Article
T1 The Gender Gap in Attitudes toward Capital Punishment and Life without Parole (LWOP) in Kentucky
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 35
IS 2
SP 108
OP 118
A1 Vito, Anthony G.
A2 Vito, Gennaro F.
A2 Higgins, George E.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/192137571X
AB Over years of U.S. polls, women have consistently opposed capital punishment—especially in comparison to the attitudes of males. In addition, there has been a shift in the United States away from using the death penalty in cases of murder and toward using the long-term, open-ended, and often permanent confinement provided by the sentence of life without parole among all U.S. respondents. Using data from a poll of a representative sample of Kentucky residents conducted by the University of Kentucky’s Survey Research Center from March 4 to April 30, 2016, this study compares the attitudes of females and males concerning both capital punishment and life without parole to determine if a “gender gap” exists.
K1 Life Without Parole
K1 Death Penalty
K1 Capital punishment attitudes
DO 10.1080/08974454.2022.2126745