@article{ref1,
title="Receiving an on the spot penalty: a tale of morality, common sense and law-abidance",
journal="Criminology and criminal justice",
year="2019",
author="Snow, Adam",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="141-159",
abstract="This article examines citizens' reactions to being issued with an on the spot penalty and the consequences this has for holding a law-abiding identity. Using mundane examples of statutory requirements regulating everyday life (motoring), it is found that people use common-sense purposive reasoning in their interpretation of law which does not match the actual black-letter law application of the specific statutes. The lack of congruence between the purposive understandings of legal requirements and the black-letter application of enforcement agencies allows citizens to maintain a moral position that is aligned with the aims of the law but not its actual requirements. This process reaffirms a belief in law-abidance even where the citizen has been found to break the law.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1748-8958",
doi="10.1177/1748895817738556",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895817738556"
}