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Political orientation and perceptions of adolescent autonomy and judicial culpability
Author(s) -
Reppucci N. Dickon,
Scott Elizabeth,
Antonishak Jill
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.851
Subject(s) - culpability , autonomy , biology and political orientation , orientation (vector space) , politics , perception , psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , social psychology , suicide prevention , injury prevention , computer security , political science , medical emergency , criminology , medicine , law , computer science , neuroscience , geometry , mathematics
This study probed general attitudes about processing youths in adult criminal court across a range of offenses, explored attitudes about age of autonomous decision‐making for several activities outside the criminal justice context, and examined the interaction between these two realms. The major finding was that adults favor adult punishment of adolescent offenders at younger ages than they favor autonomy in other decision‐making contexts; the gap is widest for those who identify themselves as conservatives. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.