The main question addressed in Tom Tyler’s essay is, obviously, “Why do people obey laws?”. The essay tackles two main reasons. These include social relations and normative values.
Social relations refers to the way social groups influence people. They do so through rewarding and punishing members of their group “either by withholding or conferring signs of group status and respect, or more directly by channeling material resources toward or away from particular members (475).” Also included in social relations is the fact that people do not commit crimes because their family and friends
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