Constituţia şi opinia publică: consensul social privind pedeapsa cu moartea
Constitution and public opinion: social consensus on the death penalty

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes some of the reasons why the Romanian students agree with the capital punishment. Based on the data collected through social survey (N=177), our research tests two main variables that are supposed to form the public opinion about capital punishment: religious attitudes and conformity to majority tendencies. Statistical analyses suggested that students are holding more materialistic values than religious and their opinions regarding capital punishment are consonant with those expressed by majority.

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