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CriminologyTerrorismDeath PenaltyPublic OpinionEmpirical Research

Does Terrorism Influence Public Support for the Death Penalty?

by J. Flexon, L. Stolzenberg, S. D'Alessio, C. Duszka & M. Muscillo

Pages

144

Published

2020

ISBN

978-1-946287-10-4

About this book

Does Terrorism Influence Public Support for the Death Penalty? uses longitudinal public-opinion data to test whether high-salience terrorist events shift American attitudes toward capital punishment. The authors situate their findings within the broader literature on threat, salience, and punitive sentiment, offering a measured contribution to debates about how extraordinary events reshape ordinary policy preferences.