Attitudes of New Immigrants Toward White-Collar Crime: A Cross-Cultural Exploration

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This study was designed to determine how far new immigrants to Israel from diverse cultures and economic systems-the Soviet Union and the United States-would differ in their attitudes to crime, in particular white-collar crime. Respondents were asked to rate various deviant acts in terms of their seriousness and to express their views on certain other questions related mainly to criminal justice. A sample of veteran Israelis was also questioned for the sake of comparison. While the relative offence weighting for most offences attributed by the different groups did not differ substantially, there was a general tendency, for the veteran Israelis to be the most punitive and the Russians the most lenient. Various explanations for this were considered, as well as the implications of the findings for multi-cultural societies and legal systems.

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