Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach
Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach
Bryanna FoxJohn K. CochranMelanie Escuea University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAb University of North Carolina – Pembroke, Pembroke, NC, USABryanna Fox is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF), and Co-Director of the USF Center for Justice Research & Policy. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a former FBI Special Agent. She conducts research primarily on evidence-based policing, crime prevention strategies and crime policy evaluations, and on the developmental and psychological risk factors for offending. She is the current co-Editor of Justice Quarterly.John K. Cochran is Professor and Chair of Criminology at the University of South Florida. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida. His research focuses on micro-social theories of criminal behavior, macro-social theories of crime and crime control, assessments of issues regarding the legitimacy of capital punishment, and quantitative data collection and analysis. He has published over 150 articles, book chapters, and reports, and has served on the editorial boards of Justice Quarterly, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Drug Issues, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Sociological Inquiry, Journal of Crime and Justice, and several others. In 2016, he was awarded the ACJS Outstanding Paper Award.Melanie Escue is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She also serves as the research associate of the Im/migrant Well-Being Research Center at the University of South Florida. Her research agenda focuses on the health and well-being of marginalized groups in society, especially im/migrants living in the United States. Most recently, her work has been published in the Journal of Cultural Geography, Latino Studies, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.