Research Note

It is important to understand crime views, and how they differ among nations across the world. No published cross-cultural research on crime views of Bangladeshi and U.S. individuals could be located; therefore, this preliminary study examined the views of crime, criminals, treatment, and punishment among college students of Bangladesh and the U.S. The results of the independent t-test indicated that views differed on 14 of the 17 indicators used. When Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression equations were calculated to determine whether the results were independent of the effects of gender, age, academic standing, and importance of religion in a person’s life, the two nations differed on 15 of the 17 indicators. For respondents from both nations, these issues are complex. Within each group, there were differing views as well. Thus, there are not only cross-national differences in the views, but intra-national differences as well.