RT Article
T1  I learned it by watching you: legal socialization and the intergenerational transmission of legitimacy attitudes
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 5
SP 1123
OP 1143
A1 Wolfe, Scott E.
A2 McLean, Kyle
A2 Pratt, Travis C.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1564933687
AB Perceptions of legal actor legitimacy have important implications for criminal behaviour. While the link between perceptions of legitimacy and legal compliance has been well established, the sources of legitimacy evaluations are less clear. Drawing from the literature on legal socialization, we examined whether parents’ perceptions of the legitimacy of criminal justice authority figures influenced those same attitudes in their children. Using three waves of data from the Pathways to Desistance study, we showed that parents’ perceptions of legitimacy significantly predicted perceptions of legitimacy in their children. These effects remained robust across different model and sample specifications. Our findings have important implications for how we think about legal socialization—namely, the importance of fair and respectful legal actor behaviour across generations.
K1 Police legitimacy
K1 Court legitimacy
K1 Procedural justice
K1 Legal socialization
K1 Intergenerational transmission
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw038