Seriousness of Offenses

An Experimental Study Based on a Psychophysical Scaling Technique

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9680935
AutoresTARALD O KVÅLSETH (0000-0002-6399-735X, University of Minnesota System, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas237-244
Data de publicação1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCriminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1980.tb01362.x
OpenAlexW1830180640
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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