Entry:
Taylor, D. Garth; Scheppele, Kim Lane; and Stinchcombe, Arthur L. "Salience of Crime and Support for Harsher Criminal Sanctions," Social Problems, 26 (April, 1979), 413-424.
Abstract:
In big city and ghetto environments where crime has high salience, people form more coherent or ideological attitudinal patterns about punitiveness.
GSS Years:1972-78
Other Data Sets:
Gallup 1965, 1966
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GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document: |
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Variable Name |
Variable Label |
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| FEAR |
AFRAID TO WALK AT NIGHT IN NEIGHBORHOOD |
| BURGLR |
HOME BROKEN INTO DURING THE LAST YEAR |
| CAPPUN |
FAVOR OR OPPOSE DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER |
| CAPPUN2 |
DOES R FAVOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT |
| COURTS |
COURTS DEALING WITH CRIMINALS |
| POLVIEWS |
THINK OF SELF AS LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE |
| RACLIVE |
ANY OPP. RACE IN NEIGHBORHOOD |
| RACE |
RACE OF RESPONDENT |
| ROBBRY |
FORCEFULLY ROBBED DURING THE LAST YEAR |
| XNORCSIZ |
EXPANDED N.O.R.C. SIZE CODE |
| BUSING |
ATTITUDE TOWARD RACIAL BUSING |
| PARTYID |
POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION |
| EDUC |
HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED |