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  • The Social and Developmental Antecedents of Legal Cynicism

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    Nivette, Amy
    Eisner, Manuel
    Malti, Tina
    Ribeaud, Denis
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    Nivette, Amy
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Objectives: This study explores the social and developmental antecedents of legal cynicism. This study comprises a range of indicators organized into four domains—bonds to institutions, predispositions, experiences, and delinquent involvement—that bear on theoretically plausible mechanisms involved in the development of legal cynicism. Methods: This study examines four pathways to legal cynicism using data from two waves of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths (N = 1,226). Ordinary least squares (OLS) procedures are used to regress legal cynicism at t2 (age 15) on social and psychological ...
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    Objectives: This study explores the social and developmental antecedents of legal cynicism. This study comprises a range of indicators organized into four domains—bonds to institutions, predispositions, experiences, and delinquent involvement—that bear on theoretically plausible mechanisms involved in the development of legal cynicism. Methods: This study examines four pathways to legal cynicism using data from two waves of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths (N = 1,226). Ordinary least squares (OLS) procedures are used to regress legal cynicism at t2 (age 15) on social and psychological characteristics measured at t1 (age 13), and retrospective variables measured at t2. Baseline legal cynicism was included as a covariate in all models. Results: The results show that self-reported delinquency is the strongest predictor of legal cynicism. There is also evidence that alienation from society, negative experiences with police, and association with deviant peers can foster legal cynicism. Conclusions: This study shows that legal cynicism is to a small extent the result of alienation from social institutions and negative experiences with the police. To a much larger degree, legal cynicism seems to represent a cognitive neutralization technique used to justify one’s previous self-reported delinquency.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
    Volume
    52
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427814557038
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    Amy E. Nivette et al, The Social and Developmental Antecedents of Legal Cynicism, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2015, Vol. 52(2) 270-298. Copyright 2015 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Criminology
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172567
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