Estimating Perceptual Stability and Deterrent Effects: The Role of Perceived Legal Punishment in the Inhibition of Criminal Involvement
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-)Published 1 January 1983
Raymond Paternoster, Linda E. Saltzman, Gordon P. Waldo, Theodore G. Chiricos
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Abstract
the relationship between perceptions of the certainty and severity of legal punishment and involvement in criminal behavior.' A recent article by Grasmick and Green2 is typical of this line of deterrence research. In this study, Grasmick and Green are concerned with the causal connections between three control-inhibitory variables (moral commitment, perceived threat of legal punishment, and threat of social disapproval)
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