Moral Judgment, Crime Seriousness, and the Relations Between Them

Herzog, Sergio; Einat, Tomer

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“…Roberts et al (1996) found that adults often knew about the core parts of the Canadian rape law reform even if their knowledge of sexual crime in general was low. The perceived seriousness of a behaviour affects whether it is regarded as a crime or not (Herzog & Einat, 2012;Houston & Hwang, 1996), and rape is most likely perceived as being more serious than other sexual criminal behaviours. This might also explain why, in our study, rape in a relationship context was more easily identified as a sexual crime than receiving a picture of a penis.…”

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Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

Svensson

Baer

Silva

2018

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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The aim of the present study was twofold. First, we wanted to quantify the level of knowledge of Swedish young people regarding sexual crime and to evaluate their supportive attitudes, while at the same time we aimed at identifying, through self-report, the sources that most contribute to such knowledge and attitudes. A sample of 245 upper secondary school students was selected from five schools in four Swedish counties. The results indicate that adolescents in Sweden have a high level of knowledge of rape, sexual molestation/harassment, and sexual exploitation of a dependent person. Furthermore, they show nonsupportive attitudes to rape, sexual harassment, and sexual crime in general. However, some issues related to these types of crime proved to be confusing to the participants and, therefore, require targeting in education policies, specifically among juvenile males and those born abroad. The results are discussed in the context of the needs for sexual crime prevention. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

Svensson

Baer

Silva

2018

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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“…Path4-1jmoral judgmentseriousness of issue Herzog and Einat (2016) The relationship between moral judgment and perception of seriousness of issue has been found positive 7…”

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Reporting misdemeanors in the workplace: analysing enablers using modified TISM approach

Gupta

Bhal

2020

TQM

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PurposeIn the scope of the immense growth of corporate frauds and scandals, reporting unethical practices could be considered as an important mechanism to control them and ultimately improve organizational quality. To this end, this study proposes the conceptual framework comprising the enablers impacting employees' tendencies and behaviors to reporting misdemeanor in the workplace.Design/methodology/approachSystematic review of literature has been carried out. To understand the complexities among various enablers and to analyze their driving power and contingencies, a modified total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) approach has been adopted.FindingsThe findings indicate that enablers such as moral identity (MI) and job satisfaction (JS) having higher driving power (come at the bottom of the hierarchy) are relatively more important. Furthermore, perceived personal cost (PC), moral courage (MC), self-efficacy (SE) and anger have high dependent power of factors. Finally, the paper provides two paths that can lead to whistleblower's ethical decision.Research limitations/implicationsA conceptual framework delivered in this paper requires to test against the field data. However, the conceptual understanding of driving enablers paves the way to top management in recruiting and hiring people in the workplace.Originality/valueThis study represents the first attempt to apply TISM for whistleblowing phenomenon. It provides a comprehensive conceptual framework in order to address the relative importance of various individual enablers in developing reporting tendencies against misdemeanors.

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“…Two main issues that research had focused on are, on one hand, the degree of consensus regarding crime seriousness judgments both within societies, as well as cross-culturally (Lesieur & Lehman, 1975;Cullen, Link, & Polanzi, 1982;Parton, Hansel, & Stratton, 1991;Levi & Jones, 1985;Fishman, Kraus, & Cohen, 1986;Kwan & Kwan, 2000;Herzog & Einat, 2016). While research shows that there is a substantive degree of consensus regarding the seriousness of the most and the least serious crimes, there is somewhat less agreement when it comes to crimes which fall in the midrange (Cullen, Link, Travis, & Wozniak, 1985).…”

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What Makes a Crime Serious? Testing Warr’s Model of Offence Seriousness

Akdeniz¹

2020

JPLC

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Warr (1989) proposed that the perceptions of seriousness of different criminal offences are a function of perceptions of harmfulness caused by a crime (consequences of the crime), and perceived wrongfulness of a crime (normative evaluations regarding the crime). The study reported in this paper tested this model and examined the perceptions of seriousness of different offences in a sample of university students in Turkey. It was found that the degree of consensus regarding offence seriousness was much higher for offences judged as more serious. It was further found, when using wrongfulness and harmfulness assessments, that offences clustered into three larger groups: offences that present threat/risk of physical harm/death, property offences, and "minor" offences. Further, Warr's model was tested on both the offence and the individual level of analysis. The findings suggest that the model indeed holds, however relative strength of harmfulness and wrongfulness, as predictors of crime seriousness, are different in Turkey, compared to findings from the USA and Westernest European countries. On an individual level, it was found that harmfulness was a stronger predictor than wrongfulness in a much larger number of offences, and that on the level of the offence, harmfulness was as strong a predictor of seriousness as wrongfulness.

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Moral Judgment, Crime Seriousness, and the Relations Between Them

Cited by 17 publications

References 78 publications

Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

Reporting misdemeanors in the workplace: analysing enablers using modified TISM approach

What Makes a Crime Serious? Testing Warr’s Model of Offence Seriousness

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