An inquiry into divergentprinciples of distributive justice

This thesis reports the results of a study that had the following purpose;is there divergence in attitudes towards legally and criminally distributed resources among men versus women and adolescent sversus senior citizens due to different principles of distributive justice; equity, equality and need. The different groups of people were as follows; men (89), women (87), adolescents (91) and senior citizens(85). A total of 176 questionnaires were answered by the respondents in their natural habitat. T-tests were conducted to scrutinise hypotheses. The foremost result of the study is that men are more negative than women concerning both criminally and legally distributed resources.