Punishments Adolescents Find Justified: An Examination of Attitudes toward Delinquency

Punishments Adolescents Find Justified: An Examination of Attitudes toward Delinquency

Examines Dutch adolescents' (N=1,914) attitudes toward delinquency, specifically the degree to which they find norm violations acceptable. Results show that violent delinquents were significantly more tolerant of violent behavior as compared with nondelinquents, with one exception: when injury...

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Veröffentlicht in:Adolescence 2000-12, Vol.35 (140), p.683-693
Hauptverfasser: Landsheer, Johannes A, Hart, Harm't
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescence
Adolescent Attitudes
Adolescents
Attitudes
Beliefs
Crime
Criminals
Delinquency
Foreign Countries
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Offenders
Netherlands
Neutralization Theory
Norms
Psychological aspects
Public opinion
Punishment
Secondary Education
Social Attitudes
Social norms
Statistical Data
Studies
Teenagers
United States
Victims of Crime
Violence
Young people
Youth
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Zusammenfassung:Examines Dutch adolescents' (N=1,914) attitudes toward delinquency, specifically the degree to which they find norm violations acceptable. Results show that violent delinquents were significantly more tolerant of violent behavior as compared with nondelinquents, with one exception: when injury was inflicted on someone they knew, they were as little inclined to excuse the perpetrator as were nondelinquents. (MKA)
ISSN:0001-8449