In other words, people’s compliance rests more on whether they feel a duty to obey the law than it does on punishment. He then analyzed how people’s sense of duty to obey the law is related to how people perceive the justice system. He found that people’s perceptions of the justice system’s fairness and justness shapes their felt obligation to obey the law and thus their compliance. The more people felt the system was fair and just, the more they felt it was legitimate, and the more they felt it was legitimate, the more they felt obligated to obey the law. Tyler’s
