THE LIKELIHOOD OF VICTIM RESTITUTION IN MOCK CASES: ARE THE ‘RULES OF THE GAME’ DIFFERENT FROM PRISON AND PROBATION?

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLGA TSOUDIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
Justice Studies ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Criminal justice studies have examined the significance of factors on punishment likelihoods for offenders. However, these studies typically emphasize imprisonment and probation. With the growing concern for victim's rights, the criminal justice system has included the option of victim restitution. Researchers, however, have not examined the significance of factors for the likelihood of victim restitution. The present study explores differences in punishment likelihoods through social psychology — more specifically, affect control theory. Participants, after reading a presentence report, answer questions regarding the offender, the victim and the crime. Results demonstrate a difference in factors depending on the type of punishment, thus raising issues concerning the distinction between victim restitution and other punishments. The significance of social psychology and affect control theory is emphasized.

scholarly journals The Social Psychology of Occupational Status Groups: Relationality in the Structure of Deference

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-475
Author(s):  
Emily Maloney
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Better Than

Affect Control Theory (ACT) can predict the average deference that occupational identities receive from others. These “deference scores” can capture occupational status better than previous operationalizations of prestige. Combining this new measurement of occupational status with social network methods, this article explores the underlying relational patterns hidden within Freeland and Hoey’s (2018) scores of average deference. I construct a complete network of deference relations across 303 occupational identities using Bayesian ACT simulations. A blockmodel analysis of this network resulted in four positions within the occupational deference structure: everyday specialists, service-to-society occupations, the disagreeably powerful, and the actively revered. These are occupational classes that defer to the same occupational identities and receive deference from the same occupations. Exploring the reduced blockmodel provides a more complete depiction of the occupational status structure as measured by ACT.

Villains, Victims, and Heroes in Character Theory and Affect Control Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Bergstrand ◽  
James M. Jasper
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Cross Talk ◽  
Character Theory ◽  
Affect Control Theory ◽  
Affect Control ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Character Types

We examine three basic tropes—villain, victim, and hero—that emerge in images, claims, and narratives. We compare recent research on characters with the predictions of an established tradition, affect control theory (ACT). Combined, the theories describe core traits of the villain-victim-hero triad and predict audiences’ reactions. Character theory (CT) can help us understand the cultural roots of evaluation, potency, and activity profiles and the robustness of profile ratings. It also provides nuanced information regarding multiplicity in, and subtypes of, characters and how characters work together to define roles. Character types can be strategically deployed in political realms, potentially guiding strategies, goals, and group dynamics. ACT predictions hold up well, but CT suggests several paths for extension and elaboration. In many cases, cultural research and social psychology work on parallel tracks, with little cross-talk. They have much to learn from each other.

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