[Moral judgment and prediction of criminality. Comparative study of delinquents and non-delinquents].
A group of imprisoned criminals was compared to two groups of not-criminals with regard to five modes of judgment (profile of judgment) measured by Baruk's Tsedek test. The delinquents use more self-interest judgment, social judgment and absence of judgment that the whole of the not-delinquents (significantly different). They more often use the mode of moral judgment than the not-delinquents of the control group (general population) but less often than the not-delinquents of the comparative group (subjects of high educational level and religious for more than half of them). From the profile of judgment obtained for each group, a formula of prediction of tendency to crime was elaborated. It makes it possible to classify with rather good reliability the persons tested in the category of criminals or not-criminals.
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Université de Bar-Ilan, Ramat-Gan, Israël.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003415:Crime; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Jugement moral et prédiction de la criminalité. Etude comparative entre délinquants et non-délinquants.