the devil made me do it: use of neutralizations by shoplifters
By P. Cromwell, Q. Thurman. 2003
252 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Is cannabis use normalized, celebrated or neutralized? Analysing talk as action (2012, methodology): “‘The claim of normality’ (Coleman, 1998) and ‘everybody does it’ (Cromwell & Thurman, 2003) have, for example, previously been described as effective techniques of neutralization.”
- Psychological Pathways to Fraud: Understanding and Preventing Fraud in Organizations (2011, background): “…and Mills, 1999), moral disengagement (Bandura, 1991, 1999), and neutralization (Sykes and Matza, 1957).7 Individuals who experience negative affect also experience a motivation to reduce that negative affect (Bandura, 1999; Cromwell and Thurman, 2003; Festinger, 1957; Sykes and Matza, 1957).”
- examining the role of differential association and techniques of neutralization in explaining corporate crime (2005, background): “While Sykes and Matza ( 1957 ) specifically focused on explaining juvenile delinquency (see also Agnew 1994 ) scholars have not been precluded from applying the theory to other realms of offending (Cromwell and Thurman 2003 ).”
- A Model of Neutralization Techniques (2018, background): “Examples are “I mean, if you think about it, it seems wrong, but you can ignore that feeling sometimes” (Cromwell and Thurman 2003), “I don’t know anything” (Benoit and Hanczor 1994), and “I think I kind of blanked out, my mind went a blank” (Cavanagh et al. 2001).”
- How Techniques of Neutralization Legitimize Norm- and Attitude-Inconsistent Consumer Behavior (2013, background): “What all previously discussed studies have in common is the acceptance and appreciation of cognitive deviance neutralizations as a successful rationalization mechanism (Cromwell and Thurman 2003; Fritsche 2005).”
- Online consumer misbehaviour: an application of neutralization theory (2009, background): “…1974; Minor, 1981); claim of normalcy, denial of negative intent and claim of relative acceptability (Henry, 1990); denial of the necessity of the law and the claim that everybody else is doing it (Coleman, 1994); and justification by comparison and postponement (Cromwell and Thurman, 2003).”
- Why Do Adults Engage in Cyberbullying on Social Media? An Integration of Online Disinhibition and Deindividuation Effects with the Social Structure and Social Learning Model (2016, background): “Neutralization: Denial of victim (N-DV); Original from Sykes and Matza (1957); item from Cromwell and Thurman (2003) N3.”