Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
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...............................................................................................................................v Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 A History of Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Public Opinion, and the Death Penalty .........2 Public Opinion on the Death Penalty...................................................................................9 Measurement Issues .....................................................................................................10 Explanatory Factors .....................................................................................................12 Methodology......................................................................................................................17 Measures of Demographic Variables...........................................................................18 Measures of Control Variables ....................................................................................19 Adding the Attitudinal Variables .................................................................................20 Measures of Attitudinal Variables ...............................................................................21 Bivariate Analysis..............................................................................................................22 Multivariate Analysis.........................................................................................................24 Demographic Model ....................................................................................................24 Attitudinal Model.........................................................................................................29 Conclusion .........................................................................................................................39 References..........................................................................................................................42 Cases Cited...................................................................................................................49 Vita.....................................................................................................................................50
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