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PRISONERS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF JUSTICE AND BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD

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Nesterova M., Ruza A.

Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

2014

issue 1

81-93

Studies on justice phenomenon in social psychology have been conducted already more than 60 years and they have multidimensional nature. A great role plays the influence of justice on the formation and development of moral and legal cognition that largely determines individual’s behaviour in the society, its compliance to social norms adapted by the society. Statistical data give evidence about the change for the worse of the criminal situation, as a result of it, increases the number of prisoners. The aim of the present research is to analyze the prisoners’ (n=160, 2010) representations of justice and a just world on the basis of just world hypothesis, as well as to determine the relation between belief in a just world and the perception of court justice, prison justice and personal action justice. During the research several issues were examined: a) whether there is a relation between general and personal belief in a just world and the other parameters of justice; b) what is the level of prisoners’ belief in justice and a just world; c) what are the differences between prisoners’ representations of general and personal belief in a just world, as well as justice of court, prison and personal action. Prisoners’ level of education, criminal experience, subjective satisfaction with life and subjective assessment of belief in justice were analyzed as additional variables.

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1 Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

1 Nesterova M.

1 Ruza A.

1 2014

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PRISONERS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF JUSTICE AND BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD