Legal Socialization - A Study of Norms and Rules examines the varying responses, negative and positive, to rule enforcement, as well as the genesis of these responses and the conditions under which they occur. The book presents the results of a longitudinal, multi-methodological study of the dynamic interaction between norms of behavior and rule enforcement in a natural setting, specifically, a university residential community. This approach allowed for the testing of competing hypotheses drawn from social learning and cognitive developmental theory to determine which was more substantively predictive of legal socialization. The first major section discusses the vital issues involved in understanding legal socialization; the two major legal socialization theories; and the research design of the study carried out by the authors. The second part concentrates on empirically testing the predictions of legal development theory versus social learning theory. The final section explores the interaction between reasoning and rule-enforcing conditions and its importance for understanding legal socialization.
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The importance of legal socialization and the value of expanding our understanding of predictors of legal attitudes are discussed.
"'Why Children Follow Rules' focuses on the process by which children and adolescents develop their orientation toward the law.
Perceptions of Justice and Legal Socialization Processes Among College-age African American Males
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In his book , The Moral Sense , James Q. Wilson refers to this uniquely Russian framework for moral and legal socialization ; a framework he credits for the survival of the civil society in the USSR . The elemental building blocks of ...