break the law. Scholars in a wide variety of fields have uncovered very similar findings. One study of American soldiers stationed in Iraq and police officers in a large metropolitan department found that the more these soldiers and officers saw their organizations as procedurally fair, the more they saw them as legitimate, the more they felt a duty to obey their rules, and the more likely they were to comply with them.8 Another study, of Danish farmers, found that as compared to factors like the threat of punishment, awareness of legal rules, capacity to comply, and the costs of compliance,
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