A disembodied community collaborates in a homicide: Can empathy transform a failing justice system?

Schaefer, Diane

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“…Research shows that individuals are more likely to 'truly' forgive offenders if they have made amends for their offensive behavior (Batson et al, 1997;Prashaw, 2001;Macaskill et al, 2002;Zechmeister and Romero, 2002;Schaefer, 2003). Fourth, we suggest that individuals who empathetically identify with offenders will be more likely to extend forgiveness to them.…”

Section: Why Empathy Reduces Punitivenessmentioning

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Empathetic identification and punitiveness

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Cullen

2009

Theoretical Criminology

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Studies reveal that some Americans are more willing than others to endorse harsh measures to control crime. We advance this literature by presenting a model that offers an integrated explanation of why some Americans are more punitive than others. Scholars have found that people construct images of offenders that reflect those disseminated by elites, the media, and popular culture. These images can vary across types of crime and can change over time. We posit that individual differences in punitiveness are related to whether people empathize with the images they construct of 'typical' stereotyped offenders. We conclude by offering a systematic model that summarizes the proposed theoretical perspective and helps to illuminate both implications for macro-level theories and future avenues of investigation.

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Section: Why Empathy Reduces Punitivenessmentioning

confidence: 89%

Empathetic identification and punitiveness

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Cullen

2009

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Research shows that empathetic adolescents and adults are less likely to engage in criminal conduct (Broidy, Cauffman, Espelage, Mazerolle, and Piquero, 2003;Bush, Mullis, and Mullis, 2000;Eisenberg and Miller, 1987;Jolliffe and Farrington, 2004;Quinn, 2002;Eisenberg and Miller, 1987;Owens, Slee, and Shute, 2001). In addition, restorative justice practitioners recognize that genuine expressions of empathy are essential for healing the fractured relationships engendered by criminal activity (Pepinsky, 2000;Prashaw, 2001 ;Quinney, 1991;Schaefer, 2003;Tifft, 2002;Van Stokkom, 2002).…”

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Empathy and Public Support for Capital Punishment

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Fisher

2005

Journal of Crime and Justice

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Using the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), this study illuminates the relationships among empathy-the imaginative transporting of oneself into the thinking, feeling, and acting of another and by doing so viewing the world as the person does-two intervening variables, and public support for the death penalty. More specifically, we investigate whether empathetic Americans are less likely to be racially and ethnically intolerant and politically conservative, and whether these intervening variables mediate the relationship between empathy and support the death penalty. Our results show that empathy has a direct and indirect effect on public support for capital punishment. Thus, we discovered that empathy directly predicts support for the death penalty and empathetic Americans were less likely to support capital punishment because they tended to be politically liberal and *We thank Tom W. Smith for his insights on an earlier draft of this paper. racially and ethnically tolerant. Accordingly, our results indicate that scholars investigating public support for the death penalty should include humanistic-oriented belie$ such as empathy into their analysis.

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Street justice: a theoretical paradigm

Downing

2011

Contemporary Justice Review

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A disembodied community collaborates in a homicide: Can empathy transform a failing justice system?

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Empathetic identification and punitiveness

Empathetic identification and punitiveness

Empathy and Public Support for Capital Punishment

Street justice: a theoretical paradigm

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