Why Children Follow Rules: Legal Socialization and the Development of Legitimacy

ISBN-10
0190644176
ISBN-13
9780190644178
Series
Why Children Follow Rules
Category
Social Science
Language
English
Published
2017
Authors
Tom R. Tyler, Rick Trinker

Description

'Why Children Follow Rules' focuses on the process by which children and adolescents develop their orientation toward the law. Drawing on law, psychology, sociology and criminology, Tom Tyler and Rick Trinkner review the literature on socialization with a particular focus on families, schools, and the juvenile justice to reveal a fundamental conflict about how authority and power should be exercised in essential social institutions. They argue for the merits of consensual authority as a way to foster the popular legitimacy of the law at a time when public trust in the police, courts, and the law has reached unsettling lows.

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