Results Results (See Table 2 - Table 2 should have been inserted here) showed that the majority (75%) of respondents either agree or somewhat agree that tougher laws deter crime. On the question of whether prison is about punishment or rehabilitation, 75% either agree or somewhat agree that prison is about punishment, not rehabilitation. A majority of respondents (81%) either agree or somewhat agree that sentence should be decided on a case-by-case basis. Most respondents (87%) believe that mandatory sentences such a Three Strikes Laws provide a fair way to administer tougher sentences. On the question of whether prison deter crime, 31% somewhat agreed, 19% neither agreed nor disagreed, and 50% either somewhat disagreed or disagreed. Responses on the drug problem showed that the majority of respondents (56%) either somewhat disagreed or disagreed that the best way to solve the drug problem is through tougher sentencing. Most respondents (56%) either agree or somewhat agree that politicians only care about getting criminals off the street, not getting rid of crime. On the question of whether life sentences were preferable to the death penalty, 50% either somewhat disagreed or disagreed that life sentences were preferable to the death penalty with the remaining responses distributed among the choices. On the issue of taxes, 75% of respondents either disagree or somewhat disagree that building more prisons is a better tax investment than improving rehabilitation programs. A majority of respondents, 69% believe that our judicial system punishes Blacks and Hispanics more harshly than Whites. Comparisons between males and females revealed no significant differences in responses. Table 3 represents a breakdown of responses by gender.

Results Table A shows the results of the crosstab between ATTEND and XMOVIE. The collapsed categories show that of the respondents who went to church weekly, only 13.0% had seen an X-rated movie in the last year. That amount increased to 28.2% with monthly attendance and 28% with seldom attendance. It is interesting to note that the category, never, did not appear on the table since no one answered in this way.  **Remember for Project, Do NOT cut/paste directly from SPSS - create your own table/graph/chart.  One Bivariate example below: Table 1 Seen X-Rated Movie in Last Year by Church Attendance                                                                                                Church Attendance Seen X-Rated Movie                                        About Weekly   About Monthly   Seldom in Last Year                                                          Yes                          13%                    28%               28.5%                                                                                           (41)                     (42)                (93)                                                          No                            87%                   72%               71.5%                                                                                           (274)                 (107)             (614)                                                                      Total            100%                100%             100%                                                                       N                  315                    149                 790 * Note:        Weekly=nearly every week more than once a week, every week        Monthly=once a month, 2-3x monthly        Seldom=less than once a year, once a year, several times a year