This study reports the results of a survey of students in a Mexican university who were asked to rate the seriousness of 75 crimes on a scale of 1 to 100. Results are reported overall as well as by gender. In 46 of 75 cases, the male and female mean scores were not significantly different. In...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 82 countries. Participants were asked how frequently...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 56 countries. Participants were asked how risky is it to...

This study used World Values Survey data to learn the attitude toward tax evasion of sample populations in the four BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China. The study found that more than 75 percent of the Chinese and Indian samples believed that tax evasion was never justifiable,...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, a survey was distributed to 64 students at a university in Mexico City. They were asked to place a number from 1 to 100 in the...

In the American legal system, the relatives of individuals who die as the result of a wrongful death can sometimes receive a cash award, which is paid by the person who caused the wrongful death. Calculating the amount of the award is problematic because of the many factors involved in the...

This study solicited the views of more than five hundred young, educated adults with two goals: (1) to determine whether political party affiliation is a significant demographic variable in jury selection (voir dire) and (2) to determine whether Democrats are softer on crime than Republicans,...