**Purpose**: To examine adolescents' beliefs about social problems, authority, and laws.
**Design**: Cross-sectional
**Sample**: High-school youth recruited from mid-sized city in rural conservative city/state
**Sample Size**: N = 340
**Data Collection Date**: Spring 2015
**Pre-prints and Publications**
Domain specificity in adolescents' concepts of laws: Associations among beliefs and behavior
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jora.12261?casa_token=410BptesgHUAAAAA%3ABEhRIDslVAnHFAlpEJb6Ynpu1JlKqcq5PQtYiCbyozSHSTo9ZslkLPISYM-aAPz3Zyfys1apQko8Kqs
A matter of fact? Adolescents' assumptions about crime, laws, and authority and their domain-specific beliefs about punishment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140197117301823
Differential and Domain-Specific Associations Among Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Adolescent Delinquency
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167217711937?casa_token=sRPGT99cRw4AAAAA%3AJsevN4_-tjKIXCe55XEMLlq1KkQNewYyKBO3DokLOXpomimFeC9c_dsGwH23BkavQqmRfKtchXCHvw
**Contact benjamin.oosterhoff@montana.edu for inquiries**