Tom R. Tyler | |
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| Born | March 3, 1950 Columbus, OH |
| Citizenship | U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Known for | Why people obey the law |
| Awards | Kalven prize for "paradigm shifting scholarship in the study of law and society". Law and Society Association, 2000.
Lifetime achievement award for promoting interdisciplinary research on social justice. International Society for Justice Research, 2012. The Stockholm Prize in Criminology for research on legitimacy of legal institutions and governance. The Stockholm Prize in Criminology, 2024. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social Psychology and Law |
| Institutions | New York University Yale Law School |
| Thesis | Drawing inferences from experiences: the effects of crime victimization experiences upon crime-related attitudes and behaviors (1978) |
| Website | http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/TTyler.htm |
Tom R. Tyler (born March 3, 1950) is a professor of psychology and law at Yale Law School, known for his contributions to understanding why people obey the law. A 2012 review article on procedural justice by Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe noted that, "Unquestionably the dominant theoretical approach to legitimacy within these disciplines is that of 'procedural justice,' based especially on the work of Tom Tyler.".[1] Professor Tyler was at New York University, where he was a University Professor, from 1997 until he joined the faculty at Yale in January 2012. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.[2][3] In 2024, he was awarded the world's most prestigious award in the field of criminology - The Stockholm Prize in Criminology - for his research on procedural justice.[4]