Conceptions of criminal and delinquent acts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2151987 |
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| Authors | Jack P Gibbs (Vanderbilt University), Maynard L Erickson (University of Arizona) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-100 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.1979.9967514 |
| OpenAlex | W2062120787 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Responses to questions about the nature of particular types of crimes or delinquencies (e.g., does the time of the day have anything to do with the difference between first‐degree burglary and second‐degree burglary?) indicate that numerous Arizona residents have quite incorrect conceptions of some delicts. However, there is a pattern in that incorrect conceptions are largely peculiar to delicts that are either mildly disapproved or severely disapproved. A substantial and fairly consistent difference in the accuracy of conceptions is found between police officers and civilians; but that is not the case in comparisons by age, sex, race‐ethnicity, place of residence (rural‐urban), or social class. The absence of a substantial and consistent difference in those comparisons has implications for deterrence research, and any theory about the efficacy of law rests on some assumption about the public's conception of acts that are denoted by legal terms
Criminology · Degree (music · Deterrence (psychology · Ethnic group · Political science · Race (biology · Residence · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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