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Reasons for refraining from criminal activity

American Journal of Criminal Justice 02/1995; 19(2):185-196. DOI:10.1007/BF02885914

ABSTRACT In order to establish the relative importance of reasons for not engaging in illegal activities, respondents were administered
a questionnaire containing a list of possible factors that could account for not committing crimes, and were then asked to
rank them. Multidimensional scaling analyses revealed the underlying structure of these factors. Specifically, respondents
tended to structure their reasons based on the formality/informality of a negative consequence and the relative seriousness
of a sanction.

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Keywords

crimes
 
formality/informality
 
illegal activities
 
Multidimensional scaling analyses
 
negative consequence
 
possible factors
 
relative importance
 
relative seriousness
 
respondents
 

Carol Veneziano