Sociologists and psychologists have spent several decades attempting to improve our
understanding of the factors that influence how people attribute responsibility for outcomes …

Attributions of responsibility (AR) are of interest to sociologists and psychologists. However,
the measurement of AR has been inconsistent both within and across the disciplines. The …

The present study is an exploratory examination of the influence of social and organizational
features on respondents' attributions of responsibility for wrongdoing within an organization …

A white-collar offender's role and the organizational culture in which the crime occurs affects
subjective evaluations of offender culpability. However, how they affect responsibility …

The economic, social, and human consequences of organizational wrongdoing are
enormous and well-documented. 1 The 21st century began with almost daily revelations …

This paper explores two of the most important challenges facing contemporary scholars who
seek to assign blame for deviance in organizational contexts. The first concerns the …

How do the media and an actor's social role influence a person's perception of
organizational wrongdoing? We argue that the manner in which events are framed in media …

This dissertation examines how offender and case attributes affect criminal perceptions,
responsibility attributions, and recommended sentencing outcomes for occupational and …

In their recent Crime Media Culture article, Knottnerus et al.(2006) argue that the corporate
environment of Enron led to the normalization of deviance. The authors note that their study …

Limited research has been done on how individuals attribute responsibility in cases of
organizational wrongdoing. Drawing on Gailey and Lee's (2005a) integrated model, the goal …