Turning the Other Cheek: Reassessing the Impact of Religion on Punitive Ideology
Turning the Other Cheek: Reassessing the Impact of Religion on Punitive Ideology
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转过脸去：重新评估宗教对惩罚性意识形态的影响
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
B. Applegate
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作者：
James D. Unnever;F. Cullen;B. Applegate
长期以来，宗教一直被认为是教养政策的一个基本方面。然而，研究人员直到最近才开始超越对原教旨主义基督教信仰如何影响惩罚性矫正政策偏好的考虑。本研究通过考察宗教信仰的多个方面以及它们如何影响对死刑和更严厉的地方法院的支持，拓宽了现有的研究。对一般社会调查数据的分析表明，宗教具有不同的影响。除了纯粹的原教旨主义或保守的宗教观点之外，那些对宗教有严格和道德主义态度的人，以及那些把上帝想象成一个公正的、强大的人物的人，更有可能对犯罪者怀有惩罚性的情绪。相比之下，那些对上帝有仁慈或爱的形象，对他人有同情心的人--也就是那些认真对待“把另一边脸转过来”的告诫的人--不太支持“坚韧”政策。最后，宗教不仅是一种多维现象，而且它的特征可能会结合起来，将信徒分为相反的阵营-一组属性促进对罪犯的严厉情绪，另一组属性缓和惩罚性，并为旨在帮助犯罪任性的干预辩护。
Religion has long been recognized as an underlying aspect of correctional policies. Researchers, however, have only recently begun to move beyond considerations of how fundamentalist Christian affiliations might shape preferences for punitive correctional policies. The present study broadens the extant research by examining multiple aspects of religious beliefs and how they affect support for capital punishment and harsher local courts. Analyses of General Social Survey data show that religion has divergent effects. Beyond a mere fundamentalist or conservative religious view, those who have a rigid and moralistic approach to religion and who imagine God as a dispassionate, powerful figure who dispenses justice are more likely to harbor punitive sentiments toward offenders. In contrast, those who have a gracious or loving image of God and who are compassionate toward others—that is, those who take seriously the admonition to “turn the other cheek”—are less supportive of “get tough” policies. In the end, not only is religion a multi‐dimensional phenomenon but also its features likely coalesce to divide believers into opposite camps—with one set of attributes fostering harsh sentiments toward offenders and another set of attributes tempering punitiveness and justifying interventions aimed at helping the criminally wayward.
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Krause, N;Ellison, CG
通讯作者：
Ellison, CG