External legal sanctions alone cannot curb harmful behavior

Evidence

Societies devise policies and institutional practices that shape the quality of their members’ lives and how wrongdoings are managed. Societies adopt standards of right and wrong reflecting their values and implement these standards through various legal and societal sanctions. These types of sanctions are often insufficient to curb harmful behavior because, being externally based, they are circumventable. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 30

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 30