The Socialising Legality Study
At a glance
- Scope: Thousands of students, multiple regions, three countries (Italy, UK, Japan)
- Design: Multi-wave longitudinal panel with in-school data collection
- Focus: Legal socialisation, trust in police, attitudes toward extra-legal governance
- Approach: Repeated measures to capture within-person change
- Open science: Pre-registrations, instruments, and code released in stages
Why this matters
Young people's attitude toward institutions, crime, and criminal groups are shaped by experiences with family, peers, schools, neighbourhoods, and authorities. Our longitudinal design follows the same students over time, revealing how beliefs form, shift, and consolidate - and under which social and psychological conditions.
