Una nueva prueba de la teoría de los sentimientos de inseguridad explicativa de la firmeza frente al delito
In this paper, we test insecurity feelings theory, an explanation of punitivity or firmness towards crime at the individual level. We rely on Spanish data from the 3257 study of the Centre of Sociological Research (CIS). Ordinal logit and logit regressions show that individuals tend to have firmer...
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2020
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| Baliabidea: | Anuario de derecho penal y ciencias penales, ISSN 0210-3001, Tomo 73, Fasc/Mes 1, 2020, pags. 173-205 |
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In this paper, we test insecurity feelings theory, an explanation of punitivity or
firmness towards crime at the individual level. We rely on Spanish data from the 3257 study of the Centre of Sociological Research (CIS). Ordinal logit and logit regressions
show that individuals tend to have firmer attitudes towards crime as they hold more
acute insecurity feelings. These analyses control for relevant variables. Results are in
agreement with previous tests of the theory in Spain. Our study offers evidence of
other predictors of firmness towards crime: political ideology, level of education, and
lack of trust in the Administration of Justice. Our study avoids the familiar limitation
of estimating firmness with a single variable. Though the CIS study includes only two
valid measures of firmness, we expect to reduce measurement error, improve statistical power, and achieve higher precision in the estimates, in comparison with the
alternative use of single measures. Finally, our study takes categorical ordinal data
seriously, applying the appropriate statistical tools: the use of OLS may produce misleading results, and the use of analytic tools for nominal data may lose important
information. Results and limitations are discussed. |
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