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Driving Public Support: Support for a Law is Higher When the Law is Named After a Victim
Justice Quarterly ( IF 3.985 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 , DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2022.2064329
Kelly M. Socia 1
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ABSTRACT

Despite the potential symbolic, political, and practical importance of naming a law after a victim, it is unclear whether this practice influences public opinion about the law itself. I conducted a randomized vignette survey experiment on 1,000 American adults to determine if support for a proposed distracted driving law, and the punishment it authorized, was influenced by whether it was named after a victim, as well as the victim’s race, gender, and age. I found that naming a law after a victim increased support for the law and the punishment authorized overall, but this effect was not consistent across all named laws, and instead was driven by specific types of named victims. In particular, results suggest the image of the “ideal victim” may have shifted or expanded to place greater emphasis on African American women, and less emphasis on White women.



中文翻译:

推动公众支持:当法律以受害者的名字命名时,对法律的支持会更高

摘要

尽管以受害者的名字命名法律具有潜在的象征意义、政治意义和实践意义,但尚不清楚这种做法是否会影响公众对法律本身的看法。我对 1,000 名美国成年人进行了一项随机小插曲调查实验,以确定对拟议的分心驾驶法的支持及其授权的惩罚是否受到是否以受害者的名字命名以及受害者的种族、性别和年龄的影响. 我发现,以受害者的名字命名法律增加了对法律的支持,并且总体上授权了惩罚,但这种效果在所有命名的法律中并不一致,而是由特定类型的命名受害者驱动的。特别是,结果表明“理想受害者”的形象可能已经转变或扩大,更加强调非裔美国女性,

更新日期:2022-05-04
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