Deterrent Effects of Formal and Informal Sanctions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6090733
AutoresHerbert Jacob (Law and Society Association, autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen2
Número1
Páginas61-80
Fecha de publicación1980-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLaw & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9930.1980.tb00204.x
OpenAlexW2024643264
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas8

This article reports a random telephone survey of Evanston, Illinois, residents in the spring of 1978 probing knowledge of legal sanctions, perceptions of the certainty of their imposition, feelings about their legitimacy, and approval of peers for violating the law. It focuses on traffic offenses, marijuana smoking, and shoplifting and uses self‐reports of actual or potential violations. The data indicate that knowledge of the severity of legal sanctions and perceptions of the certainty of their imposition are not related to imputed violation; feelings that the law is legitimate and that peers disapprove of violations are related to imputed violation

Business · Certainty · Epistemology · Feeling · Legal certainty · Legitimacy · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology