Moral judgment by criminals and conformists as a tool for examination of sociological predictions

Article Abstract:

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.

Analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Criminology, Merton, R.K.

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Prisoners' perception of informing to the authorities: an analysis in terms of functional moral judgement

Article Abstract:

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.

Case studies, Behavior, Judgment (Ethics)

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Muslims in prison: a case study from Ohio state prisons

Article Abstract:

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.

Public affairs, Ohio, Religious aspects, Muslims, Islamic identity

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