Capital Punishment in the Era of Globalization: A Partial Test of the Marshall Hypothesis Among College Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 839-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levi LaChappelle
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Marshall Hypothesis

Note on Editorial Satire and Persuasion

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 884-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Gruner
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Capital Punishment

117 college students were either told or not told in advance the thesis of a satire ridiculing the idea that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder. Subjects were then asked whether they agreed with the statement that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder. Those not told the thesis in advance were also asked to identify which of five statements was the thesis. There may be a relationship between knowing a satire's thesis in advance and the persuasiveness of that satire. There also seems to be an association between perceiving a thesis while reading it and the satire's persuasiveness. The results tend to support those of prior studies.

The Relationship between Attitudes toward Capital Punishment and Assignment of the Death Penalty

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Stricker ◽  
George L. Jurow
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Capital Cases ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Questionnaires concerning attitude toward capital punishment, liberalism-conservatism, and the assignment of penalties in 13 capital cases were administered to 190 college students. All scales correlated significantly with each other, with Ss who were opposed to capital punishment less likely to assign the death penalty in specific cases. Factor analysis showed separate factors for murderers, assassins, attitudes and demographic data. The relationship of these findings to the Witherspoon case is discussed.

Gender and Capital Punishment Views Among Japanese and U.S. College Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
Shanhe Jiang ◽  
Lorri C. Williamson ◽  
O. Oko Elechi ◽  
Mahfuzul I. Khondaker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Japanese University

Gender is a strong predictor of death penalty support and views in the United States, with men being more supportive and punitive than women. This exploratory study was undertaken to determine whether these same differences would be present in Japan, a nation that also imposes the death penalty. Students at a Japanese university and a U.S. university were surveyed. While the proportion of students supporting the death penalty in the United States and Japan were similar, U.S. women were less supportive and less punitive than U.S. men, while Japanese women were more likely to support the death penalty and hold more punitive views than Japanese men.

Predictors of Death Penalty Views in China: An Empirical Comparison Between College Students and Citizens

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (14) ◽  
pp. 4714-4735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanhe Jiang ◽  
Ming Hu ◽  
Eric G. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
General Population ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Empirical Comparison ◽  
The World ◽  
Crime Types

China’s current Criminal Law has 46 death-eligible offenses, and China executes more people than any other country in the world. However, there is a lack of study of attitudes toward capital punishment for specific offenses, and no death penalty view comparison between college students and regular citizens in China was found. This study was taken to address these limitations. Using a sample of 401 respondents from Zhejiang, China, in 2016, the present study found that more than 72% of respondents favored the death penalty without any specification of crime types. Level of death penalty support differed by various specific crimes. As expected, relative to college students, general population citizens were more likely to support capital punishment. Both groups had the highest death penalty support for murder. The study also revealed similar and different reasons behind death penalty attitudes between college students and regular citizens.

To Reinstate or to Not Reinstate? An Exploratory Study of Student Perspectives on the Death Penalty in Michigan

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mensah Adinkrah ◽  
William M. Clemens
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Public University ◽  
The State ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Attitudinal Survey ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. state of Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1846. Since then, several abortive efforts have been made by state legislators to re-establish the death sentence to deal with convicted murderers. Concurrently, some support exists among Michigan residents for the restoration of capital punishment in the state. This article presents the results of the analysis of an attitudinal survey of 116 college students enrolled in three criminal justice courses in a Michigan public university concerning the reinstatement of the death sentence in the state. The data from this exploratory study show that a slight majority (52.6%) of respondents favored reinstatement whereas 45.7% opposed restoration. Advocates and opponents of re-establishment of the death penalty in Michigan provided similar religious, moral and economic arguments proffered by others in previous surveys on capital punishment available in the death penalty literature. The current study makes a contribution to the scant extant literature on attitudes toward the death penalty in abolitionist jurisdictions. As this body of literature grows, it can provide baseline data or information with which to compare attitudes in retentionist states.

Attitudes toward Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 904-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
April L. Vander Ryk ◽  
Maura J. O'Neill ◽  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Students Attitudes

In 51 college students, attitudes toward abortion, capital punishment, and assisted suicide were not consistently anti- or pro-death.

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.

Lessons Learned From Coaching Postsecondary Students With Traumatic Brain Injury

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
Mary R. T. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Sudden Onset ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Exhaustive List

Purpose The purpose of this clinical focus article is to provide speech-language pathologists with a brief update of the evidence that provides possible explanations for our experiences while coaching college students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Method The narrative text provides readers with lessons we learned as speech-language pathologists functioning as cognitive coaches to college students with TBI. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather to consider the recent scientific evidence that will help our understanding of how best to coach these college students. Conclusion Four lessons are described. Lesson 1 focuses on the value of self-reported responses to surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. Lesson 2 addresses the use of immediate/proximal goals as leverage for students to update their sense of self and how their abilities and disabilities may alter their more distal goals. Lesson 3 reminds us that teamwork is necessary to address the complex issues facing these students, which include their developmental stage, the sudden onset of trauma to the brain, and having to navigate going to college with a TBI. Lesson 4 focuses on the need for college students with TBI to learn how to self-advocate with instructors, family, and peers.

Effects of Physical Training on Stuttering

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Don Franks ◽  
Elizabeth B. Franks
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Physical Training ◽  
Cardiovascular Response ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Physical Stress ◽  
Submaximal Exercise ◽  
Endurance Running ◽  
Response To Exercise

Eight college students enrolled in group therapy for stuttering were divided into two equal groups for 20 weeks. The training group supplemented therapy with endurance running and calisthenics three days per week. The subjects were tested prior to and at the conclusion of the training on a battery of stuttering tests and cardiovascular measures taken at rest, after stuttering, and after submaximal exercise. There were no significant differences (0.05 level) prior to training. At the conclusion of training, the training group was significandy better in cardiovascular response to exercise and stuttering. Although physical training did not significantly aid the reduction of stuttering as measured in this study, training did cause an increased ability to adapt physiologically to physical stress and to the stress of stuttering.

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