Gender and perception of prisons and prisoners

✍ Scribed by Bahram Haghighi; Alma Lopez

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0047-2352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2352(98)00023-3

✦ Synopsis

An analysis of national opinion survey revealed that women, as compared to men, favored punishing serious offenders. Women, more often than men, believed that most offenders could be reformed through early intervention programs. Men, on the other hand, favored the ideas of increasing taxes for building more prisons and granting conjugal visitation to some inmates. Finally, it was argued that the differences between men's and women's opinions regarding punishment and rehabilitation was more a function of respondents' race/ethnicity, education, income, the source of the crime news, and the TV crime shows they watched, than gender itself. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd * p Ͼ .05; 2 ϭ 3.39; df ϭ 1. ** p Ͻ .01; 2 ϭ 8.12; df ϭ 1. ***p Ͻ .01; 2 ϭ 7.89; df ϭ 1. * p Ͻ .05; 2 ϭ 4.85; df ϭ 1. ** p Ͼ .05; 2 ϭ .009; df ϭ 1. *** p Ͼ .05; 2 ϭ 3.24; df ϭ 1. **** p Ͼ .05; 2 ϭ .62; df ϭ 1. ***** p Ͻ .05; 2 ϭ 4.97; df ϭ 1.