Adolescents' Confidence in Institutions: Do America's Youth Differentiate between Legal and Social Institutions?

Autor/inn/en	Fine, Adam D.; Kan, Emily; Cauffman, Elizabeth
Titel	Adolescents' Confidence in Institutions: Do America's Youth Differentiate between Legal and Social Institutions?
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 8, S.1758-1767 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fine, Adam D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000760
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Adolescent Attitudes; Differences; Grade 12; Law Enforcement; Justice; Public Schools; Religious Organizations; Racial Differences; White Students; African American Students; Hispanic American Students; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Unterscheiden; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Gesetzesvollzug; Gerechtigkeit; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Rassenunterschied; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; USA
Abstract	It is widely believed that there is a crisis of confidence in law enforcement in the United States. What remains to be seen, however, is whether adolescents actually differentiate between legal authorities and other types of authorities. Leveraging cross-sectional, nationally representative data of 12th graders from every year from 2006 to 2017 from Monitoring the Future (N = 10,941), the results indicate that adolescents distinguish between legal authorities (e.g., law enforcement, justice system) and social authorities (e.g., schools, religious institutions). Youth report more confidence in social authorities than in legal authorities. Furthermore, whereas confidence in social authorities remained largely stable between the cohorts over the last decade, confidence in legal authorities, and in law enforcement in particular, has declined markedly. Although there may be an era of mistrust in legal authorities, it cannot be attributed to a ubiquitous anti-authority attitude among modern adolescents in the United States. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01