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All Parents Are to Blame (Except This One): Global Versus Specific Attitudes Related to Parental Responsibility Laws 1
Author(s) -
Brank Eve M.,
Hays Stephanie A.,
Weisz Victoria
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00122.x
Subject(s) - blame , psychology , legislation , economic justice , social psychology , juvenile , state (computer science) , law , criminology , political science , algorithm , biology , computer science , genetics
Increasing state legislation and media interest give the appearance of public support for parental responsibility laws; however, some national polls suggest otherwise. Based on disparate global and specific attitudes in other areas of the criminal justice literature, it was hypothesized that relatively weak global support for parental responsibility would be diminished even more if a specific juvenile was described. The current studies confirmed that participants were even less supportive of parental responsibility laws when a specific juvenile and his parents were described than they were when they answered questions about parents in general.