Victimización y justicia por mano propia en Uruguay

Fernando Borraz, Maximo Rossi and Cecilia Chouhy

No 712, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: This article analyzes the attitude of the Uruguayans towards the subjection to the law in the prosecution and punishment of offenders. Specifically, it addresses the approval of people taking justice into their own hands and justification for police action outside the law when capturing delinquents. The LAPOP database (Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University) conducted in 2008 is used for this purpose. Analyzing probit estimates, it is observed that the justification of people taking justice into their own hand is related to the respondent’s experience and situation. Having been victimized in recent months, feeling unsafe in their neighborhood and considering their economic situation as not good, increases the probability of assuming such position. On the other hand, adherence to police procedures is related to individual’s philosophical and political beliefs. This finding indicates that the formation of such attitudes has a differential dynamic and that Uruguayans, when justifying actions outside the law, consider the type of action and the actor involved.

Keywords: victimization; punitivism; probit estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012-07
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