Seriousness of Offenses

An Experimental Study Based on a Psychophysical Scaling Technique

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9680935
AutoresTARALD O KVÅLSETH (0000-0002-6399-735X, University of Minnesota System, autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas237-244
Fecha de publicación1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCriminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1980.tb01362.x
OpenAlexW1830180640
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas2

This experimental study, which was partly a replication of two previous studies in Canada and the United States, had a group of Norwegian students judge the seriousness of a set of offenses based on the magnitude estimation technique of psychophysics. Although it appeared that a considerable degree of consensus regarding the rank ordering of offense seriousness extended across the social and cultural differences between the three subject populations, some clear differences did emerge. In general, any change in the judgment of offense seriousness by the Norwegian subjects exceeded the corresponding changes perceived by the Canadian and the U.S. subjects

Norwegian · Political science · Rank (graph theory · Replication (statistics · Seriousness · Statistics · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology