Experience with Legal Entities

  • Probation Officer Monitoring: 10 items that assess the degree to which the youth feels the probation officer tries to know and actually knows his behavior. This measure is designed to reflect extant measures of parental monitoring, but evaluating the degree of monitoring from a probation officer rather than a parent.
    • Adapted from: Steinberg, L., Dornbusch, S., and Darling, N.  (1992).  Impact of parenting practices on adolescent achievement.  Authoritative parenting, school involvement, and encouragement to succeed.  Child Development, 63, 1266-1281.
  • Procedural Justice: This scale measure the adolescent’s perception of fairness and equity connected with arrest and court processing. This measure is designed to tap several dimensions of fair treatment: correctability, ethicality, representativeness and consistency. The outcomes of this process include evaluations of law and its underlying norms: legitimacy and legal cynicism. The 55 items in this measure are divided into four sections: Police, Judge, Legitimacy (e.g., “I feel people should support the police.”), and Legal Cynicism (e.g., “Laws are meant to be broken.”).
    • Adapted from: Casper, J., Tyler, T., and Fisher, B. (1988). Procedural justice in felony cases. Law and Society Review, 22(3) 483-507.
    • Tyler, T.R. (1990). Why People Obey the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press.
    • Tyler, T. (1997). Procedural fairness and compliance with the law. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 133 (2/2), 219-240.
    • Paternoster, R., Brame, R., Bachman, R., and Sherman, L.W. (1997). Do fair procedures matter? The effect of procedural justice on spouse assault. Law and Society Review, 31, 163-204.
    • Srole, L. (1956). Social integration and certain corollaries: An exploratory study. American Sociological Review, 21, 709-716.
    • Sampson, R.J. and Bartusch, D.J. (1999). Legal cynicism and tolerance of deviance: the neighborhood context of racial differences. Law and Society Review, 32(4), 777-804.