Underlying Motivations For Rule-Violation Among Juvenile Delinquents: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Lubomir Cingl and Vaclav Korbel ()
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Vaclav Korbel: Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Smetanovo nabrezi 6, 111 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic

No 2018/18, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: This paper reports on a lab-in-the- eld experiment that investigates differences in rule-violating behavior between the inmates of juvenile detention centers and regular adolescents from primary schools of similar age in response to three specific contexts: (i) when they interact with ingroup and outgroup members, (ii) when they are exposed to an unfair economic situation and (iii) when the rule-violating behavior is exposed to others. Our results show substantial similarities between the delinquents and non-problematic adolescents. Even though the juvenile delinquents violate rules more, we nd no evidence of ingroup favoritism. Moreover, both groups care similarly about their social image and do not violate rules substantially more after the unfair treatment. Our findings thus show that juvenile delinquents are not inherently di erent from non-problematic adolescents and highlight the importance of social values for successful resocialization.

Keywords: delinquency; adolescence; rule-violation; experiment; random allocation game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2018-01, Revised 2018-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp and nep-soc
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