Comparación entre opinión pública y "opinión pública meditada" en relación a la delincuencia sexual.

In the last decades, many scholars have studied public opinion as one of the most important influences in criminal policy and legislation. The main purpose of this study is to analyze how public opinion and public judgment about sexual offending differ in content and resistance to the influence of t...

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Main Authors: Marteache Solans, Nerea, Martínez García, Marian, Pérez Ramírez, Meritxell
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (SEIC) 2010
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=3680858
Source:Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica: REIC, ISSN 1696-9219, Nº. 8, 2010
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Summary: In the last decades, many scholars have studied public opinion as one of the most important influences in criminal policy and legislation. The main purpose of this study is to analyze how public opinion and public judgment about sexual offending differ in content and resistance to the influence of the mass media. This research was designed as an experiment with three observations and assignment of the participants (299 college students) to the treatment and control groups. Our results show that the use of deliberative polls can change the attitudes of the participants, and that the deliberative process seems to have a mediating effect of the influence of the media, which means that this type of polls constitute a potential instrument in the development of criminal policy in Spain.