Unjust Laws and Illegal Norms

Internalizing Legal Norms: An Investigation into the Legitimacy of Payback Killings in the New Guinea Islands

“…In this regard, Strathern (: 13) also suggests that disputes in ethnically diverse environments are more likely to lead to “violence or threats of violence.” If this were the case horizontal norm transmission could be taking place through proximity and access to the state legal system, but it is outweighed by other factors. Of course, another explanation is that the criminal law produces countervailing effects as suggested by Carbonara, Parisi, and Wangenheim ().…”

“…Aldashev et al (: 798) stress that even if formal state courts are not used, their mere presence “can actually pull custom in its direction” through the threat of one of the disputants resorting to it—which they label the magnet effect. Indeed, Merry (: 943), in noting that only a small portion disputes make it to court concludes that “compliance depends largely on individual consciousness of law.” However, others such as Bicchieri () have highlighted the resilience of norms, while Carbonara, Parisi, and Wangenheim () even suggest that increases in the strictness of laws that run counter to social norms may actually lead to countervailing effects that can reinforce them.…”

Changes in divorce patterns: Culture and the law

“…Because the gap in the probability of divorce between individuals a and b is larger under unilateral legislation, the adoption of such a law would increase the incentives of type b parents to transmit their preferences. This phenomenon may be related to the papers by Parisi and von Wangenheim (2006) or Carbonara, Parisi, and von Wangenheim (2012) and would constitute an interesting extension for further research. Table 1 Divorce laws by country, 1950-2000. …”

Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies

“…Apparently these campaigns were not enough to completely change the attitude towards the issuing of invoices. In such situations, any coercive intervention by an external authority could be perceived as a violation of the established norm by the targeted population and could produce countervailing effects (Carbonara et al, 2012). Indeed, empirical evidence suggests that, irrespective of the legal and socio-economic context and the effort put into combating indirect tax evasion, it is still a widespread problem (Cowell, 1990;Slemrod, 2007).…”