God’s Penology: Belief in a Masculine God Predicts Support for Harsh Criminal Punishment and Militarism

Prior research demonstrates that multiple dimensions of religiosity significantly predict punitive attitudes and militarism. This study highlights the importance of believing in a masculine God, an aspect of religiosity with a robust and consistent relationship to punitiveness and militarism, but wh...

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Main Authors: Baker, Joseph O., Whitehead, Andrew L.
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2019
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7803
https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474519850570