Law -- Philospy -- Public Opinion

Indeks : p. 295-299 ; p. 288-294 ; The first goal of this book is to contrast the instrumental and normative perspective on why people follow the law. The instrumental perspective on the citizen underlies what is known as the deterrence literature: people are viewed as shaping their behavior to respond to changes in the tangible, immidiateincentives and penalties associated with following the law - to judgments about the personals gains and losses resulting from different kinds of behavior. The second goal of this book is to explore how people react to their personal experience with legal authorities. Of particular importance is the impact of these experience on views of the legitimacy of legal authorities, because legitimacy in the eyes of the public is a key precondition to the effectiveness of athorities. Changes in legitimacy will affect the degree to which people comply with laws in their everyday lives. And the final goal of this book is to explore the meaning of procedural justice by cntrasting the normative and instrumental approaches. The instrumental view of procedural justice contained in the control theory of Thibaut and Walker (1975, 1978) suggests that people do not focus directly on the favorability of the outcomes they receive from third parties.