Religiosity, Belief in a Just World and Crime Control Attitudes

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Abstract
2 samples of 90 college students, one Catholic and one Protestant, completed a questionnaire on attitudes toward criminal justice, the Just World Scale, and measure of religiosity and evangelicalism. Belief in a just world was associated with punitive criminal justice attitudes among Protestant but not Catholic students. Such attitudes were not mitigated significantly by religiosity. Evangelicalism was associated with punitive criminal justice attitudes among Catholic students, but not when statistical control for belief in a just world was instituted.