Punitive and/or restorative attitudes in relation to crime

Although in the literature there are several scales relating to the revengeful attitude, they do not differentiate it from the punitive attitude, indeed the last one could be placed in the extreme polarity of a continuum that, on the contrary, comes to be configured in its counterpart of the restorative attitude. The need for the operationalization of the punitive/restorative attitude construct stems, therefore, from the gaps found in the literature. Therefore, starting from the analysis of the existing literature, the work aims to: 1) explore the components and correlates of the attitudes, behaviours, emotions and feelings of the general population towards offenders and victims of crime, as possible as possible constituent elements of punitive/restorative attitudes; 2) to empirically substantiate the restorative attitude construct; 3) develop and validate a quantitative instrument to assess the punitive/restorative attitude construct and its correlates and verify its main psychometric properties.