The legal socialization framework expounds individual attitudes towards authority. The current study tested whether the attitudes of Brazilian adolescents towards social authorities (parents and teachers) explain later attitudes towards legal authority (the police). Data were obtained from three waves of a longitudinal study of Brazilian youth in São Paulo (ages 11–13; 50 per cent female) between 2016 and 2018. The time-ordered data are uniquely capable of testing the legal socialization framework as adolescent social spheres expand beyond the domestic domain. The findings of the structural equation models support the claim that attitudes towards social authorities explain later attitudes towards legal authority. The findings also paint a more complicated and nuanced picture of how spheres of authority are related.

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巴西青少年警察的合法性和程序正义：横断面和时间顺序分析

法律社会化框架阐述了个人对权威的态度。目前的研究测试了巴西青少年对社会权威（父母和老师）的态度是否解释了后来对法律权威（警察）的态度。数据来自于 2016 年至 2018 年间在圣保罗对巴西青年（11-13 岁；50% 女性）进行的三轮纵向研究。按时间排序的数据具有独特的能力，可以测试青少年社会领域的法律社会化框架扩展到国内领域之外。结构方程模型的发现支持这样一种观点，即对社会权威的态度解释了后来对法律权威的态度。调查结果还描绘了权力范围如何相关的更复杂和细致入微的画面。