Why People Obey the Law

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Tyler conducted a longitudinal study of 1,575 Chicago inhabitants to determine why people obey the law. His findings show that the law is obeyed primarily because people believe in respecting legitimate authority, not because they fear punishment. The author concludes that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. Copyright Contents Part One: Introduction 1. Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Compliance 2. Design of the Chicago Study Part Two: Legitimacy and Compliance 3. Legitimacy as a Theoretical Issue 4. Measuring Legitimacy and Compliance 5. Does Legitimacy Contribute Independently to Compliance? Part Three: Citizens' Concerns When Dealing with Legal Authorities 6. What Do People Want from Legal Authorities? 7. Measuring the Psychological Variables 8. Does Experience Influence Legitimacy? Part Four: The Meaning of Procedural Justice 9. The Psychology of Procedural Justice 10. The Influence of Control on the Meaning of Procedural Justice 11. Beyond Control Part Five: Conclusions 12. The Antecedents of Compliant Behavior 13. The Psychology of Legitimacy Appendix A: Questionnaire Used in First Wave of Chicago Study B: Coefficient Alphas for Scales Used in the Analysis C: Frequency Data Notes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 13 References Afterword Index