What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research?

By Shadd Maruna, Heith Copes. Crime and justice, 2005

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A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions † (2006, background): “…& Marshall, 1997) and on neutralization theory in criminology Copyright © The British Psychological Society Reproduction in any form (including the internet) is prohibited without prior permission from the Society (see especially Maruna & Copes, 2005, for a review of 50 years of this research).”
Are Moral Disengagement, Neutralization Techniques, and Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions the Same? Developing a Unified Scale of Moral Neutralization of Aggression (2010, neutral): “…closeness of this notion to hostile attribution of intent (Crick and Dodge 1994) is not unproblematic in our view, since it tends to conflate moral rationalization with biased information processing. sion of theoretical approaches in the field of moral neutralization, see Maruna and Copes 2005).”
Accounting for the Unaccountable: Biodiversity Reporting and Impression Management (2014, neutral): “…unexplored in management, have been analyzed successfully in various areas and disciplines, including offenders’ behaviors, deviance in the workplace, normalization of corrupt practices, crisis communication, image repair, and marketing ethics (Maruna and Copes 2005; Benoit and Czerwinski 1997).”
The role of cognitive distortions in paedophilic offending: Internet and contact offenders compared (2007, background): “However, Maruna and Copes (2005) insist that conceptually it can only apply post-offence and that it cannot explain the aetiology of offending. b. Cognitive distortions are rationalizations which offenders generate to excuse or justify their actions when required to account for their crimes.”
Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse (2013, methodology): “Recent research has indicated that the relationship between rationalizations and deviance is curvilinear ( Copes and Williams 2007 ; Ingram and Hinduja 2008 ; Maruna and Copes 2005 ) .”
How Techniques of Neutralization Legitimize Norm- and Attitude-Inconsistent Consumer Behavior (2013, methodology): “’’ Thus, justifications are implicated in the causality of consequent norm-violating behavior (Maruna and Copes 2005).”
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime (2008, background): “Especially among serious, recidivist offenders (unlike the participants in research by Paternoster and by Leibrich), the deep internalization of shame may trigger feelings of depression and powerlessness (Maruna and Copes 2005).”
Is cannabis use normalized, celebrated or neutralized? Analysing talk as action (2012, background): “In short, neutralization techniques are all about the negotiation of a stigma (Maruna & Copes, 2005; Shiner & Newburn, 1997), normalization theory believes it has disappeared.”