TY - JOUR
AU1 - Mylonas, Anastassios D.
AU2 - Reckless, Walter C.
AB - Attitudes toward law, legal institutions, and law enforcementauthorities may indicate a level of criminality. Such attitudes arethe internalized residues of critical experiences fed back into thearena of behavior. A pioneer study found that attitudes towardlaw varied in expected directions with criminal and noncriminalsamples in the United States and that a very definite anddiscernible gradient existed when the attitude inventories ofmaximum-security prisoners, probationers, labor-union members,and Mormons were compared. Does a similar gradient existamong criterion groups in other countries, based on their assessed attitudes toward law, law enforcement, and legal institutions ? After the American research schedule was pretested inGreece, it was administered to a sample of two hundred prisoners, two hundred laborers, and two hundred police officers (knownto be the most law-abiding of Greek groups). A gradient was alsodiscernible among the three Greek samples in the expecteddirection: the prisoners were the most unfavorable in attitude,the laborers favorable, and the police most favorable. The Greekpolice sample had scores similar to those of the Mormons in theUnited States. A criminality level index or measure, if it can berefined, would make a very important diagnostic and predictivetool in the field of crime control.
TI - Attitudes toward Law Enforcement in Greece and the United States
JF - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
DO - 10.1177/002242786800500108
DA - 1968-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/attitudes-toward-law-enforcement-in-greece-and-the-united-states-USIkywQWhv
SP - 81
EP - 88
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -