Sources of Variation in Pro-Death Penalty Attitudes in China: An Exploratory Study of Chinese Students at Home and Abroad

Posted: 29 Feb 2008

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Bin Liang

Oklahoma State University - Tulsa

Hong Lu

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Terance D. Miethe

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Lening Zhang

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: January 2006

Abstract

This paper examines Chinese students' attitudes about the death penalty in contemporary China. Drawing upon Western public opinion research on the death penalty, samples of Chinese college students at home and abroad are used to explore the magnitude of their pro-death penalty attitudes and sources of variation in these opinions. Both groups of Chinese students are found to support the death penalty across different measures of this concept. Several individual and contextual factors are correlated with pro-death penalty attitudes, but the belief in the specific deterrent effect of punishments was the only variable that had a significant net effect on these attitudes in our multivariate analysis. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for future research on public opinion about crime and punishment in China.

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Suggested Citation

Liang, Bin and Lu, Hong and Miethe, Terance D. and Zhang, Lening, Sources of Variation in Pro-Death Penalty Attitudes in China: An Exploratory Study of Chinese Students at Home and Abroad (January 2006). The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 119-130, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=905674 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi048

Bin Liang (Contact Author)

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Hong Lu

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Terance D. Miethe

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Las Vegas, NV 89154
United States

Lening Zhang

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