Perceived Risk and Social Control
Do Sanctions Really Deter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4084571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond Paternoster (0000-0002-6435-4962), Linda E Saltzman, Gordon P Waldo, Theodore G Chiricos |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 457-479 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053589 |
| OpenAlex | W2319299344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 116 |
| References cited | 25 |
Perceptual deterrence researchers have used simple cross-sectional correlations between prior behavior and current perceptions to study the effect of legal threats on social control. Such designs are inadequate because they: (1) confuse the causal ordering of perceptions and behavior, and (2) fail to take into account other inhibitory factors in an explicit causal model. In an analysis of panel data, the methodological simplicity of earlier studies is shown to have led researchers to reach erroneous conclusions. Our data suggest that past studies report an experiential effect, not a deterrent effect, and that the effect of perceived sanctions on criminal involvement is minimal once social definitional factors (moral commitment, informal sanctions) are controlled
Actuarial science · Business · Control (management · Criminology · Economics · Perception · Political science · Risk perception · Sanctions · Social control · Social risk · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Drugs and the law
Perceptual Research on General Deterrence
The social side of sanctions
Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior
Jugend, Recht und Kriminalität
Retracted Article School social bonds, school climate, and school misbehavior
The primary prevention of alcohol problems
A Longitudinal Test of Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Testing the Leading Crime Theories
Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime
School Delinquency and the School Social Bond
The deterrent effect of the perceived certainty and severity of punishment
What Keeps Students from Driving under the Influence of Alcohol and Prescription Drugs?
The U.S. immigrant paradox
Focal Visual Attention in Crime Decision Making
The (Non)Deterrent Potential of Prison Sanction Structure
Differenzielle Abschreckbarkeit als Evidenzgrundlage negativer Generalprävention – Eine Bestandsaufnahme der kriminologischen Wissensbasis
Examining the Effect of Residential Mobility on Crime Through the Mechanism of Perceived Informal Social Costs
A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence
Three Paths from Law Enforcement to Compliance
More structural holes, more risk? Network structure and risk perception among marijuana growers
School Delinquency and School Commitment
“But Everybody Does It…”
Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and the Effective Rule of Law
Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
Trust and Governance
Does majoring in criminal justice affect perceptions of criminal justice
Drinking, Driving, and the Legal Profession1
More Offenders, More Crime
Evidence‐Based Prosecution
More cops, fewer prisoners
Transnational white‐collar crime and risk
Focused Deterrence and the Promise of Fair and Effective Policing
Decide Your Time
Bonding to Youth Clubs and Delinquency
Theoretical challenges to understanding the potential impact of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
Crime, shame and reintegration in Russia
Reduction in Drunk Driving as a Response to Increased Threats of Shame, Embarrassment, and Legal Sanctions
Criminal Law and Tax Compliance in Argentina
Welfare fraud and welfare stigma
A New Look into Broken Windows
On the relationships between gender, power control, self-control, and crime
Deterrence and social control
The theory of social control
The influence of individual differences on the formation of perceptions of risk, social cost, and rewards of crime
Do the experiential and deterrent effect operate differently across gender
Neighborhood factors related to the likelihood of successful informal social control efforts
Rational choice beyond the classroom
Beeinflussen Sanktionsrisikoeinschätzungen das delinquente Handeln junger Menschen oder ist es umgekehrt
Restorative Justice and Procedural Justice
Can Social Science Explain Organizational Noncompliance with Environmental Law
The Effects of School Climate on School Disorder
Enhancing Police Legitimacy
Survival Analysis and Specific Deterrence
Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency
Self-Control, Criminal Motivation and Deterrence
School Disorder
Incentives for Collective Deviance
Time Aggregation and Time Lag in Macro‐level Deterrence Research
The Preventive Effects of the Perceived Risk of Arrest
Perceptual Deterrence and Drinking and Driving Among College Students
A Note on Perceptual Deterrence, Religiously Based Moral Condemnation, and Social Control
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Recency and decay effects in sanction risk updating
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Certainty and Severity of Punishment Revisited
Can Rational Choice Be Considered a General Theory of Crime? Evidence From Individual‐level Panel Data
Testing the Transitivity of Reported Risk Perceptions
The Techniques of Neutralization and Violence
Not Just “For the Thrill of It”
Sociological and Human Developmental Explanations of Crime
Explaining the Academic Performance-Delinquency Relationship
Perceived Sanction Threats, Gender, and Crime
The Process of Criminalization
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization
An Experimental Investigation of Deterrence
On the Relationship of Past to Future Participation in Delinquency
Risk Perceptions Among Serious Offenders
A Structural Model of Drinking and Driving
Conceptual framework for a study of authority
Is the Effect of Perceived Deterrence on Juvenile Offending Contingent on the Level of Self-Control? Results from Three Countries
Political Science Theories of Crime and Delinquency
Delinquenz als soziales Handeln
Certainty, Severity, and Their Relative Deterrent Effects
Does Regulatory Enforcement Work? A Panel Analysis of Osha Enforcement
Courtship Violence and Social Control
Conscience, Significant Others, and Rational Choice
Does first arrest change perceptions of arrest risk? Evidence from a matched analysis of youth in the U.S
Criminal Careers in the Short-Term
Crime, Punishment, and Stake in Conformity
Unemployment and Criminal Involvement
Police Response to Crime
Testing an Expected Utility Model of Corporate Deterrence
Tax Compliance and Perceptions of the Risks of Detection and Criminal Prosecution
Changes in the Sex Patterning of Perceived Threats of Sanctions
Social Constraints and Civil War
Dispute Mediation in the American Prison
Deterrence Theory and the Implementation of Speed Limits in the American States
Compliance Theory
Theory and Practice of Regulatory Enforcement
The Limits of the Economic Analysis of Regulation
Measuring delinquency
Crime, punishment, and deterrence
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Factor Analysis
Deterrent and Experiential Effects
Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Notes on the Concept of Commitment
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Deterrence as Social Control
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Sex and Theories of Deviance
Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
Toward a Theory of Criminal Deterrence
Perceived Risk of Punishment and Self-Reported Delinquency
Sanction Fear and the Maintenance of Social Order
Formal and Informal Sanctions
Deterrent and Definitional Influences on Shoplifting
Causes of Delinquency
Perceived Penal Sanction and Self-Reported Criminality
Age, Sex, and the Versatility of Delinquent Involvements
Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior
Social Control and Delinquent Behavior
Conventional Ties, Peer Influence, and the Fear of Apprehension
| Unique citing works | 116 |
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| Citations per year | 2,76 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 114 |