Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanding the legitimacy factor in the procedural justice legal socialization model

青少年违反规则行为的比例比任何群体都高。这项研究调查了法律社会化，即个人发展对社会规则的理解并对其做出决定的过程。具体来说，程序正义法律社会化模型预测权威人物的公平对待会导致青少年认为他们更合法，从而更有可能服从。以前，合法性被视为信任和服从义务的组合。目前的研究将信任和义务作为独立的组成部分进行考察。此外，尽管青少年对权威人物制定规则的权利的认知已被支持为另一个重要的合法性因素，但在程序正义模型中尚未对其进行研究。本研究将考察“制定规则的权利”作为第三个合法性组成部分。最后，本研究将纳入法律（警察）和非法律（父母）权威人物。这项研究将使用600名年轻青少年的样本，这些青少年目前正在参加新罕布什尔青年研究，这是一项关于犯罪的纵向研究。在研究1中，参与者将阅读权威人物（父母/警察）公平或不公平行为（程序正义）的场景。对信任的感知、制定规则的权利和遵守的义务将进行评估。在研究2中，参与者将阅读信任、制定规则的权利和服从的义务被操纵的场景（高vs低）。参与者将评估场景中的演员和他们自己打破规则的可能性。研究结果将用于发展一个扩大的法律社会化模型，其中整合了合法性的新概念。最终，拟议的研究将能够通过讲习班立即加以利用，为旨在减少青少年犯罪的干预工作的发展提供基础，从而向从事青年工作的学校系统和社会服务机构提供信息和支持。

More than any group, adolescents have the highest rate of rule-violating behaviors. This research investigates legal socialization, the process by which individuals develop their understanding of society's rules and make decisions about them. Specifically, the procedural justice legal socialization model predicts that fair treatment by authority figures leads adolescents to view them as more legitimate and, in turn, more likely to obey. Previously, legitimacy has been examined as a composite of trust and an obligation to obey. The current research examines trust and obligation as separate components. Furthermore, although adolescents' perceptions of authority figures' right to make rules has been supported as another important legitimacy factor, it has not been examined in the procedural justice model. This research will examine "right to make rules" as a third legitimacy component. Lastly, this research will incorporate legal (police) as well as non-legal (parents) authority figures. The research will use a sample of 600 young adolescents currently participating in the New Hampshire Youth Study, a longitudinal study of delinquency. In Study 1, participants will read scenarios in which an authority figure (parent/police) acts fairly or unfairly (procedural justice). Perceptions of trust, right to make rules, and obligation to obey will be assessed. In Study 2, participants will read scenarios with trust, right to make rules, and obligation to obey manipulated (high vs. low). Participants will rate how likely the actor in the scenario and they themselves would be to break the rule.The findings will be used to develop an expanded model of legal socialization that integrates a new conceptualization of legitimacy. Ultimately, the proposed research will be able to be used immediately via workshops to inform and support school systems and social service agencies working with youth by providing a basis for the development of intervention efforts aimed at reducing adolescent delinquency.