CONSENSUS IN CRIME SERIOUSNESS: EMPIRICAL REALITY OR METHODOLOGICAL ARTIFACT?*
作者:
FRANCIS T. CULLEN,
BRUCE G. LINK,
LAWRENCE F. TRAVIS,
JOHN F. WOZNIAK,
期刊:
Criminology
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 1
页码: 99-118
ISSN:0011-1384
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1985.tb00328.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Miethe (1982) has recently argued that the consistent findings of wide‐spread consensus in the rankings of the seriousness of crimes may be more a rejection of the methodological approaches used by past researchers than of actual public sentiments. Building on Miethe's insights, this paper examines the extent to which the nature of the techniques employed to analyze data influences seriousness evaluations. The results indicate that consensus is affected by such factors as the rating task given to the subjects, how consensus is measured, and the type of offense under investigation. In turn these methodological considerations caution against using existing research as the bask either for the verification of consensus theories of justice or for the formulation of sanctioning polic
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