Punitive Responses to Criminal Violence and Migration

• In Event: Democratic and Anti-democratic Attitudes Latin America

Brief Overview

Do citizens prefer punitive responses to criminal violence when crimes are committed by refugees? We conduct a survey experiment to evaluate whether the nationality of a criminal suspect influences punishment preferences.

Authors

• Sofia Vera, University of Kansas

• Miguel Carreras, University of California-Riverside

• Giancarlo Visconti, Pennsylvania State University