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    Sentencing and public confidence: Results from a national Australian survey on public opinions towards sentencing

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    Authors
    Mackenzie, G.
    Spiranovic, C.
    Warner, K.
    Stobbs, N.
    Gelb, K.
    Roberts, Lynne
    Broadhurst, R.
    Bouhours, T.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Mackenzie, Geraldine and Spiranovic, Caroline and Warner, Kate and Stobbs, Nigel and Gelb, Karen and Roberts, Lynne and Broadhurst, Rod and Bouhours, Thierry. 2012. Sentencing and public confidence: Results from a national Australian survey on public opinions towards sentencing. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Crimininology. 45 (1): pp. 45-65.
    Source Title
    Australian & New Zealand Journal of Crimininology
    DOI
    10.1177/0004865811431328
    ISSN
    0004-8658
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29869
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper examines the critical issue of public confidence in sentencing, and presents findings from Phase I of an Australia-wide sentencing and public confidence project. Phase I comprised a nationally representative telephone survey of 6005 participants. The majority of respondents expressed high levels of punitiveness and were dissatisfied with sentences imposed by the courts. Despite this, many were strongly supportive of the use of alternatives to imprisonment for a range of offences. These nuanced views raise questions regarding the efficacy of gauging public opinion using opinion poll style questions; indeed the expected outcome from this first phase of the four phase sentencing and public confidence project. The following phases of this project, reported on elsewhere, examined the effects of various interventions on the robustness and nature of these views initially expressed in a standard ‘top of the head’ opinion poll.

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