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Understanding Death Penalty Support and Opposition Among Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Students

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  • Raj Sethuraju
  • Jason Sole
  • Brian E. Oliver

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Although a sizable number of studies have gathered information from college students regarding their varying degrees of support for capital punishment, few have explored the underlying rationales behind these students’ death penalty support or opposition. In addition, although criminal justice majors have frequently been used as study participants, little research has sought to explore if law enforcement majors are different in manners for supporting or opposing capital punishment than other criminal justice majors. In the current study, a survey designed to measure reasons for support or opposition to capital punishment was administered to a convenience sample of 135 criminal justice and law enforcement majors at a mid-size Midwestern university. The results indicated that law enforcement majors were not significantly different from criminal justice majors on measures of support or opposition to capital punishment. There were, however, some notable differences found related to the academic standing of the students.

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  • Raj Sethuraju & Jason Sole & Brian E. Oliver, 2016. "Understanding Death Penalty Support and Opposition Among Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Students," SAGE Open, , vol. 6(1), pages 21582440156, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:6:y:2016:i:1:p:2158244015624952
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244015624952
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