Why Children Follow Rules: Legal Socialization and the Development of Legitimacy

by Rick Trinkner and Tom R. Tyler

Book Overview

As with all social institutions, learning about law and how to relate to it is an important part of growing up. In Why Children Follow Rules, Tom R. Tyler and Rick Trinkner focus on legal socialization, the process by which children and adolescents form their orientation toward the law, and outline what is known about the process across three related, but distinct, contexts: family, school, and the juvenile justice system. They emphasize the degree...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197520693
• ISBN13: 9780197520697
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"