Reactions to penalties for offenses committed by the police and public citizens
Testing a social-cognitive process model of retributive justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10162211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N T Feather (0000-0003-2016-382X, Flinders University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 528-544 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| 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 (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.75.2.528 |
| PMID | 9731323 |
| OpenAlex | W2060018123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 8 |
This research investigated situations involving the police and public citizens in which both committed offenses and were punished. Participants responded to either a scenario describing police violence against a "green" protester (n = 177) or one describing dangerous driving by detectives leading to injury of juveniles in a car chase (n = 149). Results showed that information about following orders mitigated participants' reactions to offenses committed by authority figures. The perceived seriousness of the offenses committed by police authorities was negatively related to participants' level of right-wing authoritarianism and positively related to the importance participants assigned to universalism values. These relations were opposite in direction for the public offenders who refused to obey a police order. Other relations supported a social-cognitive process model in which values, responsibility, seriousness, and deservingness are key variables
Authoritarianism · Criminal justice · Criminology · Democracy · Economic Justice · Political science · Retributive justice · Seriousness · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Deservingness and emotions
Retributive versus compensatory justice
Reactions to an offense in relation to authoritarianism, knowledge about risk, and freedom of action
Retributive justice and social categorizations
Distinguishing between deservingness and entitlement
Punishment as restoration of group and offender values following a transgression
Judgments of Deservingness
The Psychology of Deservingness and Acceptance of Human Rights
Influência social, atribuição de causalidade e julgamentos de responsabilidade e justiça
Authoritarian dynamics and unethical decision making
Retributive and restorative justice
Beyond Retribution
Retribution as Revenge and Retribution as Just Deserts
Why We Punish in the Name of Justice
Revenge, Retribution, and Values
Analyzing Relative Deprivation in Relation to Deservingness, Entitlement and Resentment
Perceived Legitimacy of Judicial Authorities in Relation to Degree of Value Discrepancy with Public Citizens
The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences
The Dimensionality of Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
The Dark Side of Gemeinschaft
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Parents, Teachers and Schools on Student Values
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |