Testing the Marshall Hypothesis and its antithesis: the effect of biased information on death‐penalty opinion

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniese Kennedy‐Kollar ◽  
Evan J. Mandery
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Marshall Hypothesis ◽  
Death Penalty Opinion ◽  
Biased Information

Testing Death Penalty Opinions With General Questions and A Specific Case Scenario: Potential Lessons From China

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110668
Author(s):  
Bin Liang ◽  
Hong Lu ◽  
Jianhong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
Crime Scenarios ◽  
Death Penalty Opinion

Despite rich literature on public opinion on capital punishment, only a few studies examined people’s death penalty support within specific contexts. None have explored if correlates that influence people’s opinion would hold the same effect in general questions and specific case scenarios. Similarly, the Marshall hypotheses have not been tested with specific crime scenarios. Based on a sample of 1,077 students in a quasiexperimental design, this study contrasts Chinese students’ death penalty opinion in general questions with a specific crime scenario, and tests the Marshall hypotheses with the latter. Compared to their support in general questions, students’ support for death sentences dropped significantly in the specific crime scenario. Multivariate analyses showed that different factors influenced people’s decisions in the general questions and in the specific case, and respondents’ choices of preferred punishment in the specific crime scenario failed to lend support to the Marshall hypotheses.

Life or Death: Using a Real-World Case to Assess Student Death Penalty Opinion

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Denise Paquette Boots ◽  
Stacy L. Mallicoat ◽  
Jennifer Wareham
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Real World ◽  
Student Death ◽  
Death Penalty Opinion

Knowledge and death penalty opinion: A panel study

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Bohm ◽  
Ronald E. Vogel ◽  
Albert A. Maisto
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Death Penalty Opinion

The Impact of Information on an Individual's Support of the Death Penalty: A Partial Test of the Marshall Hypothesis among College Students

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Lambert ◽  
Alan Clarke
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Innocent Person ◽  
The Third ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Marshall Hypothesis ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

In Furman v. Georgia, Justice Marshall hypothesized that informed individuals would not support the death penalty. To test this hypothesis, survey results from 730 students at a Michigan university were used. Students read one of three essays; one focusing on death penalty deterrence research, another on the chances of sentencing an innocent person to death, and the third on the general reasons for punishing offenders (i.e., the control essay). The innocence essay resulted in a small but statistically significant reduction of support. There was no statistically significant reduction in support for the death penalty among the deterrence and control essay groups. The findings are discussed and recommendations for future research are made.

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