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Revisiting Thurstone's and Coombs' scales on the seriousness of crimes and offences

โœ Scribed by Ingwer Borg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
533 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0046-2772

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โœฆ Synopsis

The classical studies by Thurstone (1927b) and Coombs (1967) on the seriousness of crimes and offences are replicated here for a sample of male and female students. Eighty subjects used both forced choice and graded dominance ratios to assess all pairs of I0 crimes/offences. The direct ratio estimates correlate very highly with paircomparison probabilities, thus making it possible to interpret the former as direct estimates of dominance probabilities. These data can be scaled with excellent fit in Thurstone's sense. The resulting scales are quite similar to those obtained by Thurstone and Coombs. An analysis of the individual data shows, however, that 69 per cent of the average data are aggregated over a variety of distinct subgroups of individuals who partition the crimedoffences into subsets that are incomparable in their seriousness. Thurstone's and Coombs' seriousness scales must therefore be considered a population lawfulness.

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