Punishment and social organization: a study of durkheim's theory of penal evolution

Absolutist political structures will be negatively associated with leniency in punishment (618).

A strong association between societal complexity and political integration casts doubt on the strength of this association.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of percentages	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Absolutist Political Structures	Independent	Territorial Hierarchy, Form And Rules Of Government
Leniency In Punishment	Dependent	Sanctions

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Watts, Joseph	2015	High political complexity has coevolved with broad supernatural punishment (2, 5).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with less than two levels of political hierarchy, those with large extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2015	Belief in broad supernatural punishment facilitates and sustains high political complexity (2, 5).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	2005	Widespread political participation will be negatively correlated with corporal punishment of children (615).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2018	As predicted by top-down theories of conversion, Austronesian cultures with greater political organization will be faster to convert to Christianity than those with less political organization.	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author