Hudson County, New Jersey /

"September 1986."

Acidic substrata potential map : [Monmouth County, New Jersey] /

"This map estimates the potential of encountering a sulfide bearing geologic substratum beneath the soil."

Acidic substrata potential map : [Middlesex County, New Jersey] /

"This map estimates the potential of encountering a sulfide bearing geologic substratum beneath the soil."

Acidic substrata potential map : [Mercer County, New Jersey] /

"This map estimates the potential of encountering a sulfide bearing geologic substratum beneath the soil."

Morris County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Ocean County, New Jersey /

"March 1985."

Passaic County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Sussex County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Somerset County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Soil surface textures, Salem County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Soil surface textures, Salem County, New Jersey /

"October 1986."

Union County, New Jersey /

"April 1985."

Warren County, New Jersey /

"June 1985."

FIRM, flood insurance rate map and street index, borough of Carteret, New Jersey, Middlesex County /

Relief shown by spot heights.

Sentencing and public confidence : results from a national Australian survey on public opinions towards sentencing

This paper examines the critical issue of public confidence in sentencing, and presents findings from Phase I of an Australia-wide sentencing and public confidence project. Phase I comprised a nationally representative telephone survey of 6005 participants. The majority of respondents expressed high levels of punitiveness and were dissatisfied with sentences imposed by the courts. Despite this, many were strongly supportive of the use of alternatives to imprisonment for a range of offences. These nuanced views raise questions regarding the efficacy of gauging public opinion using opinion poll style questions; indeed the expected outcome from this first phase of the four phase sentencing and public confidence project. The following phases of this project, reported on elsewhere, examined the effects of various interventions on the robustness and nature of these views initially expressed in a standard ‘top of the head’ opinion poll.