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SUMMARY:Crime and Punishment: Rethinking Right Wing Authoritarianism - Mal
 ia Marks\, Criminology 
DTSTART:20240213T131000Z
DTEND:20240213T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Right wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a political psy
 chology construct proposed by Duckitt (2009) and refined by Gerber and Jac
 kson (2016)\, purported to account for a spectacular proportion of varianc
 e in punitiveness. We beg to differ.  We challenge the validity of punitiv
 eness measures used by existing research and fail to reproduce an effect o
 f RWA on punitive attitudes when using a more robust measure of punitivene
 ss\, as measured by a large representative population survey from several 
 Central European countries. Latent variable analysis of responses to a ran
 ge of sentencing vignettes challenged the idea that there is a single unde
 rlying "punitiveness" construct\, an assumption that underpins existing RW
 A research. Latent class analysis\, however\, revealed patterns in sentenc
 ing preferences. RWA in isolation was not predictive of subjects' sentenci
 ng class. Rather\, the effect of RWA was suppressed by other political psy
 chology measures.  That is\, RWA was only significant when other measures 
 were added to the model. We critically discuss the assumptions of the RWA 
 construct in the context of our findings and set new directions for the re
 search into the root causes of punitive sentiments.\n
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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