.... Parents who reported that their child’s school had provided information about active shooters to students had better attitudes toward preventive efforts overall. Parents who reported that their child’s school had changed firearms policy perceived a higher level of risk. Parents were also asked to share...

... of the role that national identity and RWA seem to play. Originality/value The paper offers insight into factors behind people’s punitive attitudes towards specific crimes regardless of geo-cultural location. It includes three dimensions: submissiveness to authority figures, conventionalism...

...Marek Palasinski; Neil Shortland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address individual factors predicting punitive attitudes towards sexual and domestic offences and offenders have received little attention. Design/methodology/approach In Study 1,137 participants completed a 25-item...

... Parents Children (kinship) Attitudes Criminology Young adults There is an overrepresentation of young fathers in the criminal justice system. HM Inspectorate of Prisons estimates that 10 percent of 15‐17 years old offenders held in UK Young Offender Institutes have children of their own (Parke...

...Michelle Duffin This article summarises survey research amongst young people concerning their attitudes to alcohol, drugs and nicotine. It explores the origins of those attitudes and makes recommendations as to the means by which information sources may be improved. © Emerald Group Publishing...