[Social valuation and punishment assignment in transgressions of environment protection laws].
The <<evil>> of breaches of environmental law is not always evident. This characteristic contributes to making the study of people's evaluation of anti-ecological behaviour of special interest for the understanding of environmental law compliance. In this study, 573 participants evaluated seven transgressions of environmental law, on seven scales. The results show that participants differentially evaluate the transgressions; that Indignation and the Severity of the consequences are the scales that best predict the punishment that participants think should be assigned to these transgressions; that women are stricter in evaluating; and that there are marginal differences related to area of residence and age.
Martín
Ana M
AM
Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain. ammartin@ull.es
Hernández
Bernardo
B
Hess
Stephany
S
Suárez
Ernesto
E
Salazar-Laplace
María Esther
ME
Ruiz
Cristina
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011640:Public Policy; D011678:Punishment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires