Vulnerable victims, monstrous offenders, and unmanageable risk: Explaining public opinion on the social control of sex crime

By Justin T. Pickett, Christina Mancini, D. Mears. 2013

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Advantages of Matched Over Unmatched Opt-in Samples for Studying Criminal Justice Attitudes: A Research Note (2020, methodology): “The matched sample strategy seeks to eliminate bias due to confounded sampling by adjusting—through matching and weighting—for variables that influence selection, thus yielding a sample that approximates a simple random sample of the population (Ansolabehere & Rivers, 2013; Mercer et al., 2018).”
The Complexity of Public Attitudes Toward Sex Crimes (2017, unknown): “One of the more consistent findings is that females typically report greater fear of and punitiveness toward sex offenders (Brown, Deakin, & Spencer, 2008; Craig, 2005; Kernsmith et al., 2009; Levenson, Brannon, et al., 2007; Phillips, 1998; Pickett et al., 2013; Willis, Malinen, & Johnston, 2013).”