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Summary
The judged seriousness of 19 crimes was scaled by Thurstone in 1927 and again by Coombs in 1966. The present study once again repeated the method of the Thurstone study with a comparable population, but with the addition of seven crimes directly related to the Watergate incident. The major findings were as follows: (a) Sex offenses have continued to decrease in judged seriousness since 1966. (b) The seven Watergate related offenses added by this study were exceeded in judged seriousness only by those crimes that involved direct personal threat.
