SANCTIONS AND DEVIANCE - EVIDENCE AND REMAINING QUESTIONS (FROM SOCIOLOGY OF CORRECTIONS - A BOOK OF READINGS 1977, BY ROBERT G. LEGER AND JOHN R. STRATTON - SEE NCJ-41800)

• NCJ Number: 41817
• Author(s): C R TITTLE; C H LOGAN
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 19 pages
• Corporate Author: John Wiley and Sons
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

RESEARCH STUDIES CONDUCTED SINCE 1960 ARE CITED TO SUPPORT THE VIEW THAT NEGATIVE SANCTIONS ARE SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES IN THE EXPLANATION OF CONFORMITY AND DEVIANCE. AREAS WHERE MORE SPECIFIC RESEARCH IS NEEDED ARE LISTED.

Abstract

THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A NUMBER OF RESEARCH STUDIES THAT HE CONCLUDES BRING SOCIAL SCIENTISTS TO THE GENERAL POSITION OF TREATING THE ISSUE OF DETERRENCE AS AN OPEN QUESTION, REQUIRING A GREAT DEAL OF RESEARCH TO UNRAVEL ITS CONSISTENCIES AMID COMPLEX VARIATIONS. THE PROGRESSION OF RESEARCH NEEDED IS PRESENTED AS FOLLOWS: DETERMINING THE INFLUENCE OF TYPE OF NORM ON DEGREE OF DETERRENCE THAT IS LIKELY TO RESULT FROM THE APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS; DETERMINING HOW CHARACTERISITCS OF GIVEN TYPES OF BEHAVIOR AFFECT THE DEGREE OF LIKELY DETERRENCE OF DEVIANCE; SPECIFYING THE WAY IN WHICH DETERRENCE OF DEVIANCE VARIES BY CHARACTERISTICS OF POTENTIAL RULE-BREAKERS; CLARIFICATION OF THE WAY IN WHICH VARIATIONS IN SANCTION CHARACTERISTICS THEMSELVES INFLUENCE THE LIKELY DEGREE OF CONFORMITY; DETERMINING THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF THE VARIABLES IN THE GENERATION OF CONFORMITY; AND DISCOVERING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF SANCTION THREATS COMPARED TO OTHER VARIABLES THAT ARE THOUGHT TO BE IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING CONFORMITY OR DEVIANCE....RCB