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dc.contributor.authorWilliamson, Harley
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, K
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T00:09:05Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T00:09:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/408667
dc.description.abstractThe Attitudes to Punishment Project was designed to gauge public attitudes towards laws introduced to address terrorism in Australia, as well as public attitudes to ethnic and religious diversity. Concepts such as social identity, tolerance to diversity, and perceptions of threat from minority groups were measured. An initial nationwide general population survey—called the Attitudes to Punishment Survey—was conducted between 31st January and 2nd March 2018 (see Williamson, Murphy, & Sargeant, 2018). A total of 1,199 Australian residents completed that first survey. On 15th March 2019 (approximately 1 year after the initial survey), a self-professed right-wing extremist entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand with an arsenal of loaded firearms and began shooting at Muslim mosque-goers during Friday prayer. The attack killed 51 people and injured a further 49 (Battersby & Ball, 2019). This event presented a pertinent opportunity to examine whether public attitudes towards counter-terrorism measures and diversity changed following a major terrorism event that involved a white supremacist terrorist. Hence, a second wave of survey data collection took place between 29th March and 28th April 2019 in the Attitudes to Punishment Wave 2 Survey. The items included in the Attitudes to Punishment Wave 2 Survey align closely with those asked in the Wave 1 survey, but with some notable additions. Specifically, items were added to better understand participants’ attitudes towards right-wing extremism. Additional questions were also included to further examine the extent to which participants perceived that Muslims pose a threat to Australians. Finally, a series of new questions were added to understand the extent to which participants perceived that right-wing extremist groups pose a threat to Australians. The inclusion of these questions was timely as Australia’s DirectorGeneral of Security Mike Burgess noted in his Annual Threat Assessment speech in February 2020 that “the extreme right wing threat is real and it is growing” in Australia (https://www.asio.gov.au/publications/speeches-and-statements/director-general-annualthreat-assessment-0.html). This Technical Report presents the findings from the Wave 2 survey
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.griffith.edu.au/criminology-institute
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.titleAttitudes to Punishment Survey Wave 2: Technical Report
dc.typeReport
dc.type.descriptionU2 - Reviews/Reports
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWilliamson, H; Murphy, K, Attitudes to Punishment Survey Wave 2: Technical Report, 2021
dc.date.updated2021-10-06T10:46:08Z
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gro.griffith.authorMurphy, Kristina


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