Información, ¿antídoto frente al populismo punitivo?. Estudio sobre las actitudes hacia el castigo de los menores infractores y el sistema judicial juvenil
The study of citizens� attitudes towards the punishment of juvenile offenders has been established as one of the most prominent and prosperous spheres of research within Criminology. Its main findings have highlighted the ignorance of the general population towards the way in which the juvenile j...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica (SEIC)
2011
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4783099 |
| Source: | Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica: REIC, ISSN 1696-9219, Nº. 9, 201129 pags. |
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The study of citizens� attitudes towards the punishment of juvenile offenders has been
established as one of the most prominent and prosperous spheres of research within
Criminology. Its main findings have highlighted the ignorance of the general population
towards the way in which the juvenile justice system is run. For this reason, the objective of
this project is to analyze the effect of information in compensatory attitudes and perception
of juvenile justice system, whilst observing the impact of socio-demographic, personal and
instrumental variables. In order to achieve this, a quasi-experimental design has been
implemented with a treatment group and a control group, in Talavera de la Reina. The
collected results, consistent with the comparative research, show that public opinion is
subject to the quantity and quality of the information at the community�s disposal. This
verifies that as public awareness rises, punitive attitudes and unfavorable opinions against
the juvenile justice system, fall. Likewise, the results reaffirm the complex and multifaceted
nature of attitudes, influenced by multiple independent factors which are documented in
international empirical research. |
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