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Utilizing personal values to explain people's attitudes towards legal norms
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Abstract The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’ and non-delinquents’ general attitudes towards legal norms. We expect that 10 basic personal values form a circular scale common to all individuals, both delinquents and non-delinquents, that people’s ratings of the imp... view more
The aim of this study is to clarify whether personal values explain delinquents’ and non-delinquents’ general attitudes towards legal norms. We expect that 10 basic personal values form a circular scale common to all individuals, both delinquents and non-delinquents, that people’s ratings of the importance of these 10 values predict their norm acceptance in a sinusoidal way, with higher predictability for delinquents, and that the correlations of personal values with norm acceptance are highest for those delinquents with a broad spectrum of offences. Finally, we expect that gender does not have an impact on these profiles, whereas controlling for age does. Our analyses are based on four studies on community crime prevention. The results are in line with the above expectations.... view less
Keywords
value; value system; standard; legal norm; criminality; attitude; offender; offense; prevention
Classification
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
norm acceptance; MDS; sinusoid curve hypothesis; ZIS 135
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 632-652
Journal
European Journal of Criminology, 19 (2022) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370820913237
ISSN
1741-2609
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed