According to Professor Tom Tyler's important Why People Obey the Law (2006), people are more likely to obey the law under two circumstances: they believe the crime is morally wrong and that the law generally deserves respect. Does empirical evidence support this statement? How does this affect how people think about the morality of defendants' conduct?
What will be an ideal response?
Research has convincingly demonstrated that the criminal law loses its force if people believe it's ineffective or doesn't deserve their respect. The law deserves respect when people perceive that its procedures are fair and impartial (41–68). Professor Janice Nadler (2005) has demonstrated that when a particular law violates a person's commonsense view of a just law, they're more likely to flout laws commonly encountered in everyday life, for example traffic laws and petty theft (1399). Research studies cited in the text indicate that participants perceived that the moral actors were more moral than neutral actors and the immoral actors and the neutral actors were more moral than the immoral actors. Also, immoral defendants received harsher sentences than neutral defendants and moral defendants.
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