Crianças e Adolescentes

Socializing justice: The interface of just world beliefs and legal socialization

Abstract

One of the pillars of legal socialization theory is how nonlegal contexts shape the legitimacy of and compliance with laws. Yet there is little longitudinal evidence establishing the interface mechanism between these spheres. The purpose of this research was to demonstrate how youths’ beliefs in a just world (BJW) can help explain the transmission between the justice of non-legal authorities (parents and schools) and law legitimacy and rule violating behavior (RVB).We utilized two waves of longitudinal data from adolescents at ages 13 and 14 (N = 680) in the São Paulo Legal Socialization Study. Structural equation modeling revealed a good fit to the tested model that parental procedural justice and school justice predict both personal and general BJW, and these predict law legitimacy evaluations 1 year later. General and personal BJW also had an indirect effect on RVB over the following year via law legitimacy. The results suggest that non-legal authorities may influence law legitimacy not through a direct projection (which was not significant), but through an indirect process ofworldview construction. Legal socialization and just world belief research can converge to help explain the interface between non-legal and legal spheres of authority.

KEYWORDS: longitudinal analyses, social development, youth

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Socializing justice: The interface of just world beliefs and legal socialization
Authors: Renan Theodoro de Oliveira, André Vilela Komatsu
Kendra J. Thomas
Ano: 2020
Tema(s): Crianças e Adolescentes
Tipo: Artigo
Language: Inglês
Formato: PDF
Páginas: 22
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Socializing justice: The interface of just world beliefs and legal socialization
Renan Theodoro de Oliveira, André Vilela Komatsu