Law, social policy, and violence
The impact of regional cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dov Cohen (0000-0002-0520-8527, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 961-978 |
| Publication date | 1996-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.70.5.961 |
| OpenAlex | W2057975851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 22 |
Social policies reflect cultural values. Because of their frontier heritage, the U.S. South and West were hypothesized to have cultures favoring violence for self-protection. Predictions were confirmed for laws relating to guns, defense of self and home, and foreign policy. In addition, the legacy of slavery should make the South more accepting of violence used for coercion and punishment. Predictions were confirmed for laws relating to spousal abuse, corporal punishment, capital punishment, and foreign policy. The slave South and nonslave South differed from each other only on issues relating to coercion and punishment, further implicating slavery as a source of this ideology. It also was found that although the West and nonslave South might symbolically approve of violence, they rarely administer it. At a collective level, this resembles a) the distinction between symbolic and instrumental attitudes and b) the gap between expressed attitudes and actual behavior
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A Socio-Ecological and Multilevel Approach to the Role of Honour Cultures on Violence Justification
A bumpy train ride
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
Monopolizing force? Police legitimacy and public attitudes toward the acceptability of violence
Client Initiated Violence Directed Toward Staff
Self‐ and Other‐presentational styles in the Southern and Northern United States
The American National Conversation about (Everything but) Shame
Gun Cultures or Honor Cultures? Explaining Regional and Race Differences in Weapon Carrying
Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around
Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States
Latin American, Asian, and American Cultural Differences in Perceptions of Spousal Abuse
Cultural Psychology
Morality and Mind-Body Connections
Tightness–looseness across the 50 united states
Cultural differences in emotions
Adolescent help-seeking for dating violence
Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor
Latin American, Asian, and American Cultural Differences in Perceptions of Spousal Abuse
Honor Endorsement and Increased Firearm Purchasing Behavior and Intentions During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Beyond the Dichotomy
Preferred responses when honour is at stake
“Different Dialects”
To Honor and Defend
Approaching honor and shame with humility
Preliminary Validation of Two Brief Measures of Masculine and Feminine Honor Endorsement
Gender specific honor codes and cultural change
Women’s and men’s role in culture of honor endorsement within families
How Selective Mobility, Social and Ecological Influence may Impact Geographic Variations in Life Satisfaction Scores
Unity in Diversity
Vengeful Citizens, Violent States
Evolution and the capacity for commitment
A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics
Slavery's Enduring Legacy
Naming on the Bright Side of Life
Regional Naming Patterns and the Culture of Honor
Layoffs and violence revisited
Identity and the racialized politics of violence in gun regulation policy preferences
Introduction to the symposium
Explaining state differences in firearm legislation
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions
Cultural variation
U.S. Southern and Northern Differences in Perceptions of Norms About Aggression
War and Revenge
Honor on Death Row
Attitudes Toward Law and Prisoners, Conservative Authoritarianism, Attribution, and Internal-External Locus of Control
Gun Culture in Action
Taking the Law into Their Own Hands
Slavery's Carceral Legacy
The Southern Culture of Honor and Violent Attitudes
Best Served Cold
The Effects of Low Self-Control and Desire-for-Control on White-Collar Offending
Teasing out the effects of macro-conditions on race-specific male homicide rates
Firearms and fisticuffs
Explaining School Corporal Punishment
Anger and Aggression
Public Opinion and Capital Punishment
Self-Protection and the Culture of Honor
Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor
Honour and Shame
The cultural geography of the United States
Caste and Class in a Southern Town
Albion's Seed
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Violence and U.S. regional culture
Cracker Culture
Intimate Violence in Families
More about Justifying Violence
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
Hardening of the Attitudes
The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes
Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor
Prejudice and politics
Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence
The History of Violence in America
Some Social Structure Determinants of Inconsistency between Attitudes and Behavior
Cultural and Economic Sources of Homicide in the United States
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |