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Zito, Nicole; McQuillan, Patrick J. – Current Issues in Education, 2010
According to neutralization theory, to justify unethical behavior delinquents often embrace strategies that deflect personal responsibility for their actions from them and toward other persons or contextual factors outside their control. Drawing on neutralization theory, this case study explores how middle school students endorsed comparable…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Middle Schools, Teacher Student Relationship