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266----------------------------------------------Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1983Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Criminal Justice-Related TopicsTable 2.74 Attitudes toward having prisoners makeproducts or perform services for the State, bydemographic characteristics, United States, 1982(\OTE: Respondents were asked whether they thought the followingproposal was a good idea or a poor Idea. For a discussion afpublic opinion survey sampling procedures, see Appendix 7.Question: ''Keep prisoners constructing buildings, makingproducts or performing services that the state would have tohire other people to do."NotionalSex:MaleFemaleRace:WhiteNonwhiteEducation:CollegeHigh schoolGrade schoolOccupation:Professional and businessClerical and salesManual workersNonlabor forceIncome:25,000 and over20,000 to 124,99915,000 to 19,99910,00U to 14,99915,000 to $9,999Under $5,00UAge:Total under 30 years18 to 24 years25 to 29 years30 to 49 yearsTotal 50 years and older50 to 64 years65 years and olderCity size:1,000,000 and over500,000 to 999,99950,000 to 499,9992,500 to 49,999Under 2,500, ruralRegion:EastMidwestSouthWestReligion:ProtestantCatholicPolitics:RepublicanDemocratIndependent(Percent)Goodidea838383847781848~817883838285u4828281787978848586848578858083818383848481888280PoorideaNoopinion13 4Source: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Report~ Report No.200 (Princeton, N.J.: The Gallup Poll, May I 82), p. 9.Reprinted by permission.141212171513II1417131214131314II1318161912IIIIIIII181214131513121312151014143546437554542347645344354'* 364445344246Table 2.75 Attitudes toward requiring that prisoners beable to read and write before they are released fromprlson~ by demographic characteristics, United States,1982(\OTE: Respondents were asked whether they thought the followingproposal was a good Idea or a poor Idea. For a discussion ofpublic opinion survey sampling procedures, see Appendix 7.Question: ''Require every prisoner to be able to read andwrite before he or she is released from prison."NotionalSex:MaleFemaleRace:WhiteNonwhiteEducation:CollegeHigh schoolGrade schoolOccupation:Professional and businessClerical and salesManual workersNonlabor forceIncome:~25,000 and over20,000 t" ~r.24'99915,000 to 19,999$10,000 to 14,999$5,00U to $9,999Under $5,000Age:Total under 30 years18 to 24 years25 to 79 years30 to 49 yearsTotal 50 years and older50 to 64 years65 years and olderCity size:1,000,000 and over500,000 to 999,99950,000 to 499,9992,500 to 49,999Under 2,500, ruralRegion:EastMidwestSouthWestReligion:ProtestantCatholicPolitics:RepublicanDemocratIndependent(Percent)Goodidea8986928995849193869091908892888992938989889089898993918888879386H8908991899287PoorideaNoopinion8 3Source: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Report, Report No.200 (Princeton, N.J.: The Gallup Poll, May 1982), p. 8.Reprinted by permission.106831263II96610687538878887488Il1059898776942324343I3422443433523343I443254I3241.:.Table 2.76 Attitudes toward requiring that prisoners have askill or learn a trade before thay are released fromprison, by demographic characteristics, United States,1982(\OTE: Respondents were asked whether they thought the followingproposa I was a gaod ide!: or a poor idea. For a discussion ofpublic opinion surve~ sampling procedllres, see Appendix 7.Question: ''Require prisoners tp have a skill ar to learn atrade, to fit them for a job before they are released fromprisen."NotionalSex:MaleFemaleRace:WhiteNonwhiteEducation:CollegeHigh schoolGrade schoolOccupation:Professional and businessClerical and salesManual workersNon labor forceIncome:25,000 and over20,000 to $24,99915,000 to $19,999I 0,000 to $14,99915,000 to $9,999Under $5,000Age:Total under 30 years18 to 24 years25 to 29 years30 to 49 yearsTotal SO years and older50 to 64 years65 years and olderCity size:I ,000,000 and over500,000 ,to 999,99950,000 to 499,9992,50U to 49,999Under 2,500, ruralRegion:EastMidwestSouthWestReligion:ProtestantCatholicPolitics:RepublicanDemocratIndependentaLess than I percent.(Percent)Goodidea949495949695949694989495959891959794949494959'~95949598959294959494969594959594Poorlo"a4434244I4(a)43425322443344332274443334334Noopinion22222I232222I(a)42I422322I32(a)3I2Saurce: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Report Report No.200 (Princeton, N.J.: The Gallup Pail, May 1 ~82), p. 7.RCiJrinted by permission.I23I22222Table 2.77 Attitudes toward permitting wivCls ·to visitimprisoned husbands for weekends in prison guest houses,• by demographic characteristics, United States, 1982!'OTE: Respondents were asked whether they thought the followingproposal was a good idea or a poor idea. For a discussion ofpublic opinion survey sampling procedures, see Appendix 7.Question: "In some nations and in some states in the U.S.,in order to keep families together, wives are permitted tospend some weekends each year with their husbands in specialweekend guest houzes within the prison grounds."NotionalSex:MaleFemaleRace:Whitc;NonwhiteEducation:CollegeHigh schoolGrade schoolOccupation:Professional and businessClerical and salesManual workersNonlabor forceIncome:25,000 and over20,000 to ~24'99915,000 to 19,99910,000 to 14,99915,000 to $9,999Under $5,000Age:Total under 30 years18 to 24 years25 to 29 years30 to 49 yearsTotal 50 years and older50 to 64 years65 years and olderCity size:1,000,000 and over500,000 to 999,99950,000 to 499,9992,500 to '19,999Under 2,500, ruralRegion:EastMidwest. SouthWestReligion:ProtestantCatholicPolitics:RepublicanDemocratIndependent(Percent)GoodIdea616358597171594569626346655964575053716973684649426171635557586159665761546266PoorIdea31303333192533402627314130:;629343231232322264344433123293935363131273433382928Noopinion79181048155II613557910166856II71586868G810Source: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Report, Report No.200 (Princeton, N.J.: The Gallup Poll, May 1982), p. 14.Reprinted by permission.~,96896