What Wrongdoers Deserve: The Moral Reasoning Behind Responses to Misconduct

by R. Murray Thomas

This study analyzes the reasoning process through which individuals determine what consequences are appropriate for those who do wrong. The authors presented six cases of wrongdoing to a large number of teenagers and young adults. This sample was asked what consequences would be appropriate for the wrongdoers and why those proposed consequences would be appropriate. On the basis of the data obtained from the participants, the authors constructed a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313286302
• ISBN13: 9780313286308
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"