Deterrent Effects of Formal and Informal Sanctions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6090733
AutoresHerbert Jacob (Law and Society Association, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas61-80
Data de publicação1980-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLaw & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9930.1980.tb00204.x
OpenAlexW2024643264
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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