99-100). Bailey and Lott conducted their research by administering a questionnaire to 268 students enrolled in sociology courses at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels at an Urban Midwestern University (1976, p. 101). Freshmen were excluded because most would not have reached at least 19 years of age and would not have been “subject to legal sanctions as adults for at least one year” (p. 101). Of the 268 questionnaires administered, only two were excluded because "the students refused to collaborate in the investigation" (p. 101). Students were asked to “estimate their own chances of arrest and conviction if they violated the law rather than those of a 'generalized other' or 'someone like them'” (p. 101). According to the pretest, it would be appropriate to state that “the method used should focus on self-perceptions of criminal involvement” (p. 102). The severity of punishment section of the survey focuses on students' perceptions of the severity of sanctions. These were measured by asking them to arrest: 1) “what would happen if they were caught by police committing each of five crimes (marijuana use, marijuana sales, petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting),” and 2) “the reaction that they would expect from parents and friends if they were caught committing each crime” (p. 102). THE