Self-sanctions operate even when transgression goes undetected and undeterred

Evidence

Self-regulation via self-sanctions is manifested in two ways. The first involves the exercise of restraint over behavior that violates one’s standards, even when it is unlikely to be detected. The second is experienced as guilt, remorse, self-criticism, and attempts at restitution for having behaved transgressively. Successful socialization aims to substitute self-control for external social control. As will be amply demonstrated in subsequent chapters, when morality is stripped from profitable transgressive activities, wrongdoers find creative ways of circumventing legal penalties. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 69

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the two manifestations of internal self-sanction: restraint before the act and guilt/remorse/restitution after it.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 69