Moral judgment by criminals and conformists as a tool for examination of sociological predictions
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The psychological theories of R.K. Merton can be used for the description of criminality, with anomia providing a justification for crime. The answers to an experimental questionnaire show that empirical meeting points between the constructs of the theory of anomia - importance of goal and availability of means - and severity of offenses, the element that represented labeling theory here. Merton recognized that a conceptual framework was needed to better explain social deviance and criminality.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 1997
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Prisoners' perception of informing to the authorities: an analysis in terms of functional moral judgement
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Prisoners modulate their moral judgements of violations of their in- group regulations, which are concluded from a series of functional measurement experiment conducted on 67 women and 80 men, sentenced for at least three years for murder, robbery, drug-traffic or white collar offences. Results showed that informing to an out-group source was judged much more severely than informing to in group arbiter and from informing on an out-group inmate.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2003
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Muslims in prison: a case study from Ohio state prisons
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The study explorers the core issues related to the understudied population of Muslim inmates in thirty Ohio State male prisons. It examined the characteristics of Muslim inmates, patterns of identification with Islam, the religious behavior and relations between conversion to Islam and crime committed.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2004
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