“If You Want to Get Paid, You’ve Got to Do It”: A Qualitative Study on the Morality of Crime

Maitra, Dev Rup; McLean, Robert; Deuchar, Ross

doi:10.1080/01639625.2017.1343036

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“…This suggests there was no major difference between participants who declared previous criminal behaviour and those that did not. This is contrary to previous findings (Ashkar & Kenny, 2007;Beerthuizen & Brugman, 2012;Brown et al, 2010;Brugman et al, 2008;Buttell, 2002;Dodd et al, 1990;Gregg et al, 1994;Palmer, 2003;Brown et al, 2010;Maitra et al, 2018) and challenges commonly held presumptions that offending is associated with lower levels of morality.…”

Section: Self-reporting Of Past Criminal Behaviourscontrasting

confidence: 82%

Exploring the relationship between morality and offending through the use of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Thompson

Newton

Reeves

2021

Crime Prev Community Saf

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This study applies the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) to examine the relationship between morality and self-reported offending, captured using a questionnaire (N= 184). One hundred and forty-one respondents (77%) reported previously committing an offence. Identified measures of morality revealed no statistically significant differences between self-reported offenders and non-offenders, challenging commonly held presumptions that offending is associated with lower levels of morality. Moreover, this pattern was consistent across a range of offence types and offence severities. Using the MFQ, morality was broken down by individual MFQ foundations (sub-domains). A consistent although non-significant pattern emerged: scores for the in-group/loyalty, authority/respect and purity/sanctity foundations were lower than the harm/care and fairness/reciprocity foundations for all respondents. This highlights the importance of future research into morality and offending moving beyond the use of single metric measures of morality, and deconstructing this further into sub-domain measures, such as those offered by the MFQ.

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Section: Self-reporting Of Past Criminal Behaviourscontrasting

confidence: 82%

Exploring the relationship between morality and offending through the use of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Thompson

Newton

Reeves

2021

Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…For some adolescents it is a more central aspect of their self than for others. In addition, there may be individual differences in labeling certain actions as moral (Hardy & Carlo, 2011 ) and, to some extent, what “being a moral person” means may vary among particular subgroups of people (Maitra et al, 2018 ). Nonetheless, consistent with the long tradition of research on moral development, in this study moral identity is conceptualized and measured according to the above definition of morality, thus considering individuals with high moral identity those who endorse moral values such as being honest, compassionate, fair, and generous are central for defining their personal identity (Hertz & Krettenauer, 2016 ).…”

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Longitudinal Links of Individual and Collective Morality with Adolescents’ Peer Aggression

Gini

Thornberg

Bussey

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J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescents’ aggressive behavior has been often linked to biases in morality. However, limited knowledge is available regarding the relative strength of different moral correlates, both at the individual and class-level, in predicting different types of aggressive behavior over time. To address this gap, the present study tested the prospective associations of moral identity and moral disengagement with reactive and proactive aggression in a short-term longitudinal study. The sample consisted of 1158 Italian adolescents (48.7% females; Mage = 13.6 years, SD = 1.1). Participants completed self-report measures of moral identity, moral disengagement, perceived collective moral disengagement in the fall, and reactive and proactive aggression in the fall and in the spring. Multivariate multilevel analysis indicated that, at the individual level, after controlling for the stability of aggressive behavior, T2 (Time 2) reactive aggression was higher for students who reported lower moral identity and higher moral disengagement at T1 (Time 1). For proactive aggression, a significant interaction effect indicated that the negative association between T1 moral identity and T2 aggression was apparent only at high levels of T1 moral disengagement. Moreover, proactive aggression was significantly predicted by higher perceived collective moral disengagement. At the class-level, T1 collective moral disengagement helped explain between-class variability of T2 reactive and proactive aggressive behavior. How these results expand previous research on morality and aggressive behavior and their potential implications for prevention and intervention programs is discussed.

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“…Nobody was allowed to get harmed in the process of rickshaw theft and it should not be malicious. While moral codes among criminals are not rare (see e.g Maitra, Mclean and Deuchar 2018;Merlino 2014) in this case this clearly pertained to maintaining cordial and reciprocal relations with the owners. This absence of violence and its game-like qualities are telling.…”

Section: The Art Of Stealing Rickshaws: the Moral Code Of Dramamentioning

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Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Suykens

Islam

2022

Contemporary South Asia

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Around half a million rickshaws ply the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. To deal with the problem of theft, owner associations started to issue 'thief plates'. These allow owners to get their rickshaws back at a reduced price. They also offer a protection against theft. This article argues that these plates form material mediators brokering relations between rickshaw owners and drivers, and thieves. Building on the literature on state-citizen brokerage, bureaucratic materialities and Anton Blok's work on mafia, it wants to highlight the centrality of mediation in understanding practices of protection/extortion. It also aims to contribute to the literature on mafia in South Asia, showing the need to pay attention to norms of non-violence when dealing with violent or criminal strongmen.

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“If You Want to Get Paid, You’ve Got to Do It”: A Qualitative Study on the Morality of Crime

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring the relationship between morality and offending through the use of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Exploring the relationship between morality and offending through the use of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Longitudinal Links of Individual and Collective Morality with Adolescents’ Peer Aggression

Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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