Homo Juridicus: Correcting Law's Behavioural Illiteracy

Project Information

HomoJuridicus

Grant agreement ID: 817680

DOI

10.3030/817680

EC signature date 23 April 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 405,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 405,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

How Legal Punishment Affects Crime: An Integrated Understanding of the Law's Punitive Behavioral Mechanisms

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, Malouke E. Kuiper, Alex R. Piquero
Published in: Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 509-526, ISSN 1550-3585
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-111524-094646

Holistic Behavioral Jurisprudence: Unpacking the Complexity of Law and Behavior

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 2023, ISSN 2219-7117
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jrls/jlad024

There Is No Quick Fix: Compliance Officers’ Views on Organizational Behavioral Change

Author(s): Malouke Esra Kuiper
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2025, ISSN 0167-4544
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-025-06183-7

Can criminology sway the public? How empirical findings about deterrence affect public punishment preferences

Author(s): Brendan Rose, Malouke Esra Kuiper, Chris Reinders Folmer, Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: Crime Science, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2193-7680
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40163-024-00240-8

Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel

Author(s): Anne Leonore de Bruijn; Yuval Feldman; Christopher P. Reinders Folmer; Malouke E. Kuiper; Megan Brownlee; Emmeke Kooistra; Elke Olthuis; Adam Fine; Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: Administration and Society, 2023, ISSN 0095-3997
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00953997221140899

A Network Approach to Compliance: A Complexity Science Understanding of How Rules Shape Behavior

Author(s): Malouke Esra Kuiper; Monique Chambon; Anne Leonore de Bruijn; Chris Reinders Folmer; Elke Hindina Olthuis; Megan Brownlee; Emmeke Barbara Kooistra; Adam Fine; Frenk van Harreveld; Gabriela Lunansky; Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, ISSN 0167-4544
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4107628

Situational Voluntary Compliance: Adherence to COVID-19 Social Distancing Guidelines in the 2020 Local Outbreak in Beijing

Author(s): Ning Liu, Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, Carlos Lo, Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: The China Review, 2023, ISSN 1680-2012
Publisher: Chinese University Press

Enthusiast or sceptic? Social science consciousness among legal practitioners

Author(s): Malouke Esra Kuiper, Benjamin van Rooij, Chris Reinders Folmer
Published in: International Journal of Law in Context, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 473-493, ISSN 1744-5523
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1744552325000084

Behavioral Jurisprudence: The Quest for Knowledge about the Ex-ante Function of Law and Behavior

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Issue 22/1, 2020, Page(s) 57-77, ISSN 2219-7117
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/jrls/jlz016

Book chapters (11)

Do People Know the Law? Empirical Evidence about Legal Knowledge and Its Implications for Compliance

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 467-488, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Substance abuse, self-control and crime

Author(s): Emmeke Kooistra
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 499-515, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The science of honesty: A review and research agenda

Author(s): Shaul Shalvi Emma E. Levine Isabel Thielmann Eranda Jayawickreme Benjamin Van Rooij Kinneret Teodorescu Amos Schurr R. Michael Furr Salvatore Maria Aglioti Ingo Zettler Taya R. Cohen Andrea Pittarello Rachel Barkan Nils Köbis Margarita Leib Panagiotis Mitkidis Jonathan Schulz Eugen Dimant Gerben A. van Kleef Karolina Aleksandra Ścigała Rainer Michael Rilke Shahar Aya
Published in: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2025, Page(s) 241-327
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aesp.2025.04.004

The Opportunity Approach to Compliance

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, Adam Fine
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 516-528, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Crowding-out Effects of Laws, Policies and Incentives on Compliant Behaviour

Author(s): Christopher Reinders Folmer
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 326-340, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 1-10, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Compliance Ethnography: What Gets Lost in Compliance Measurement

Author(s): Benjamin Van Rooij, Yunmei Wu, and Li Na
Published in: Measuring Compliance Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, 2022, Page(s) 218-241, ISBN 9781108805117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Organizational Factors and Workplace Deviance: Influences of Abusive Supervision, Dysfunctional Employees, and Toxic Work Environment

Author(s): Noor de Bruijn
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 639-661, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Measuring Compliance: The Challenges in Assessing and Understanding the Interaction between Law and Organizational Misconduct

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, Melissa Rorie
Published in: Measuring Compliance Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, 2022, Page(s) 1-24, ISBN 9781108805117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Admitting Noncompliance: Interview Strategies for Assessing Undetected Legal Deviance

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, Melissa Rorie
Published in: Measuring Compliance Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, 2022, Page(s) 202-217, ISBN 9781108805117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Does Tort Deter? Inconclusive Empirical Evidence about the Effect of Liability in Preventing Harmful Behaviour

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij, Megan Brownlee
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021, Page(s) 311-325, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Monographic books (3)

The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij and Adam D. Fine
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9780807049082
Publisher: Beacon Press

Measuring Compliance: Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij and Melissa Rorie (Editors)
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9781108805117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol (Editors)
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781108759458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Homo Juridicus: Questioning Legal Assumptions About Behavior

Author(s): Benjamin van Rooij
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3572602