Perceptions of Domestic Violence and Mock Jurors' Sentencing Decisions

Autor/inn/en	Kern, Rosalie; Libkuman, Terry M.; Temple, Stacey L.
Titel	Perceptions of Domestic Violence and Mock Jurors' Sentencing Decisions
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22 (2007) 12, S.1515-1535 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260507306476
Schlagwörter	Family Violence; Court Litigation; Victims of Crime; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	The purpose of the investigation was to examine the influence of the victim's provocation and hopefulness on the sentencing of a husband convicted of domestic violence. It was hypothesized that mock jurors would assign less-severe sentencing if the victim was provoking and hopeful. Mock jurors read one of four factorial court case combinations of provocation and hopefulness and rendered an individual predeliberation sentence and a group postdeliberation sentence. Analyses revealed a significant effect of provocation, indicating that participants reduced the sentencing for the defendant when the wife was provoking relative to when she was not provoking. The analyses also revealed an effect of gender on predeliberation sentencing, with women delivering more-severe sentences than men. The effect of gender was not present in the postdeliberation sentencing, indicating that deliberation produced a sentencing compromise between women and men. The implications of these findings are discussed. (Contains 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10