What Makes a Crime Serious? Testing Warr’s Model of Offence Seriousness

Galma AKDENİZ

doi:https://doi.org/10.26650/JPLC2020-0006

Makale detayları

What Makes a Crime Serious? Testing Warr’s Model of Offence Seriousness

Yazarlar:

Galma AKDENİZ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Hukuk

Dergi:

Journal of Penal Law and Criminology 2020 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.1-31

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000905675

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2602-3911

pISSN:

2148-6646

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/JPLC2020-0006

Özet:

 

Warr (1989) proposed that the perceptions of seriousness of different criminal offences are a function of perceptions of harmfulness caused by a crime (consequences of the crime), and perceived wrongfulness of a crime (normative evaluations regarding the crime). The study reported in this paper tested this model and examined the perceptions of seriousness of different offences in a sample of university students in Turkey. It was found that the degree of consensus regarding offence seriousness was much higher for offences judged as more serious. It was further found, when using wrongfulness and harmfulness assessments, that offences clustered into three larger groups: offences that present threat/risk of physical harm/death, property offences, and “minor” offences. Further, Warr’s model was tested on both the offence and the individual level of analysis. The findings suggest that the model indeed holds, however relative strength of harmfulness and wrongfulness, as predictors of crime seriousness, are different in Turkey, compared to findings from the USA and Westernest European countries. On an individual level, it was found that harmfulness was a stronger predictor than wrongfulness in a much larger number of offences, and that on the level of the offence, harmfulness was as strong a predictor of seriousness as wrongfulness.

Makale detayları

What Makes a Crime Serious? Testing Warr’s Model of Offence Seriousness

Yazarlar: Galma AKDENİZ

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Hukuk

Dergi: Journal of Penal Law and Criminology 2020 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.1-31

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2020

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000905675

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2602-3911

pISSN: 2148-6646

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26650/JPLC2020-0006

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Galma AKDENİZ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Hukuk

Dergi:

Journal of Penal Law and Criminology 2020 Vol.8 Issue 1, pp.1-31

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000905675

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2602-3911

pISSN:

2148-6646

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/JPLC2020-0006