scholarly journals Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms

2020 ◽  
pp. 147737082091323
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Bilsky ◽  
Ingwer Borg ◽  
Dieter Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Community Crime Prevention ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Norm Acceptance ◽  
Basic Personal Values

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.

scholarly journals Inside and outside perspectives on the relation of personal values and legal norm acceptances

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingwer Borg ◽  
Dieter Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
General Norm ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
Norm Acceptance ◽  
The Impact

Based on a representative survey on crime prevention, this paper studies how personal values are related to persons’ acceptance of legal norms (LNA). We here take a closer look at these relations than previous research. Offenses, in particular, are classified into three offense types (no victim (OT1), legal person as victim (OT2, real person as victim (OT3)), and the persons’ ratings are studied both as observed and as individually centered data. It is found that conservation-oriented persons give higher and less differentiated badness ratings for all offenses than persons striving for hedonism and stimulation. The correlational structure of basic personal values and norm acceptance ratings for 14 different offenses, when represented via multidimensional scaling, exhibits that conservation orientation becomes a better predictor of LNA of all offense types if it is augmented by an additional value, peace of mind. When looking at centered ratings (i.e., controlling for each person’s mean ratings), social values become the best predictors of OT2 offenses (tax evasion, benefits fraud, taking bribes). Statements on the impact of personal values on general norm acceptance should, therefore, be replaced with more differentiated relations on how particular values are related to peoples’ attitudes towards particular offenses. 

Personal Values Across Cultures

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilach Sagiv ◽  
Shalom H. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
Value Priorities ◽  
The Many ◽  
Basic Personal Values

Values play an outsized role in the visions, critiques, and discussions of politics, religion, education, and family life. Despite all the attention values receive in everyday discourse, their systematic study took hold in mainstream psychology only in the 1990s. This review discusses the nature of values and presents the main contemporary value theories, focusing on the theory of basic personal values. We review evidence for the content and the structure of conflict and compatibility among values found across cultures. We discuss the assumptions underlying the many instruments developed to measure values. We then consider the origins of value priorities and their stability or change over time. The remainder of the review presents the evidence for the ways personal values relate to personality traits, subjective well-being, and the implications of value differences for religiosity, prejudice, pro- and antisocial behavior, political and environmental behavior, and creativity, concluding with a discussion of mechanisms that link values to behavior. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 73 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan A. Lewis ◽  
Greta Salem
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Developing Strategy ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Crime Prevention ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
New Strategies

Crime prevention strategies often aim at changing the motivations and predispositions of offenders. A new approach has developed within the last dec ade which focuses on changing the behavior of potential victims. The authors explore the theoretical foundations of the new strategies for reducing crime, commonly known as community crime prevention. They suggest that the in novation is a result of a major shift in the research paradigm for studying the effects of crime. The orientation underlying community crime prevention is labeled the "victimization perspective." Following a description of some limitations in that perspective, the authors offer, as an alternative, a perspective oriented toward social control. The social control perspective, which is based on the empirical findings of several recently completed research projects, offers a theoretical foundation both for a fresh approach to the study of the effects of crime and for the development of policies for community crime prevention.

Attitudes

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-158
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
People’S Attitudes

There are many options to eat something delicious and fast. Some people like McDonald's, others like Burger King or Wendy's. Some people dislike Dominos while others prefer tacos for breakfast. People's attitudes reflect their likes and dislikes. All the thoughts of individuals, likes and dislikes about objects, constitute their attitudes. Attitude objects are anything that individuals can hold an attitude about. Attitude objects can be physical (food) or abstract (personal values, lifestyles). If a consumer has a negative attitude towards a product, he does not think to try it. Moreover, these attitudes drive consumer decision making. So, to understand consumer attitudes towards their product is critical for marketers. First, they should discover consumer attitudes towards their products. Later they should support positive attitudes consumer have, or they should find ways of changing the negative attitudes of the consumers to positive. This chapter discusses consumer attitudes, its importance, attitude models, and changing consumer attitudes strategies.

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