andrzej-uhl.bsky.social
PhD student at Cambridge University | analytic criminology, corruption, punishment
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All of this is hard to reconcile with the dual process model of punitiveness popular in @ispp-pops.bsky.social
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We also found an interesting suppression effect: Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) first appears *negatively* related to punitiveness, but it’s only because of RWA’s close association with Social Dominance Orientation, which *lowers* the severity of preferred sentences for crime
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In some studies, Right-Wing Authoritarianism items and Punitiveness items are hard to distinguish (yet the former were used to predict the latter)
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Social category differences in crime RATES is rather something that needs to be explained than something that explains. People do not commit acts of crime just because they are, for example, male, 16 years old, working class or belong to a specific ethnic group.
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Clearly @oliveiratr.bsky.social wasn’t the reviewer :)
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So true. I had to think about one crim paper by an economist who measured his central construct - “efficiency of a criminal justice system” by clearance rates. Discourage people from reporting crimes that are hard to solve, and you can have the world’s most efficient CJS!
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Absolutely! I think we had an excellent presentation by a biology PhD student last year and hope this conference could be even more interdisciplinary, hence its title.
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Not sure if most jurisdictions do any better but don’t give up on quant sentencing research just yet - it’s just another reason to go experimental 🧪
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