Meanings of norm violator in English

As a consequence, norm violations occur more often if the punisher and the norm violator belong to the same group.

We found that punishers protect ingroup victims-whosuffer from a norm violation-muchmore than they do outgroup victims, regardless of the norm violator's group affiliation.

Norm violators also expect that punishers will be lenient if the latter belong to their social group.

Human readiness to incur personal costs to punish norm violators is a key force in the maintenance of social norms.

We have conducted punishment experiments, which allow 'impartial' observers to punish norm violators, with indigenous groups in Papua New Guinea.