JDM (characteristics) Flashcards

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What factors is JDM affected by?

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-Race
-Gender
-Attractiveness

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What may these factors influence?

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Who the jury sees as guilty or not guilty
-More likely to give a certain verdict

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Attractiveness (4)

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-What is beautiful is good
-Halo effect
-Those considered more attractive more likely to be found not guilty or treated more leniently
-Cognitive bias

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What crime is attractiveness more influential for?

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-Serious non-fatal crimes like burglary
-Less effective for fatal (murder) or if use attractiness to do crime (more likely guilty)

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Strength of attractiveness (study)

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-Taylor and Butcher
-More attractive defendants treated more leniently than unattractive
-How attractive someone is can impact on people see personality and characteristic/ ability to do crime

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Strength of attractivness (study 2)

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-Sigall and Ostrove
-Those who were attractive and comitted burglary were treated more leniently
-Those who used attractiveness in crimes like fraud were treated worse
-Shows that type of crime matters.

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Weakness of attractiveness (c)

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-Hard to measure
-ppt variables
-Subjective
-reduces cred of explanation

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Gender

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-Females more believable than males
-Males more violent(more testosterone)
-Stereotypes that males commit more crime
-94% prison pipulation men, 70% violent crime
-Females seen as mothers so more lenient
-If females violate gender role then more harsh

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Weakness of gender (Study)

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-Cruse and Leigh
-Mock jury
-assault in relationship
-Jack knifed lucy - 43% convicted
-Lucy knifed jack then 69% convicted
-If women violate gender role = harsher

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Strength of gender (study)

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-Thomas 2011
-23% men guilty of murder, only 20% females
-mock jury
-women more likely manslaughter
-Depends on crime, but female is advantage

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Weakness of gender (RM method)

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-Mock juries
-Not representative
-Made up of students
-redcues cred of theory as validity of cruse nad leigh reduced

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Race

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-15% ethnic minorities in prison
-8% white
-Ethnic treated more harsh
-In group bias. diff race jurors discriminate
-Certain ethnicities associated with certain type of crime. More likely to be G if it is this crime
-black men more likely
-implicit bias: not aware attitudes affect understanding
-social desirability when using findings

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Strength of race(study)

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-Carter and Mazzula
-Mock jurors
-In group and outgroup bias when deciding employment case

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Another strength of race (study)

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-Duncan
-Film of one man pushing another
-B pushed w 75% saw violent
-W pushing B 17%

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Weakness for race (H)

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-Ethnocentric research
-diff countries have diff legal rules. some research not gen to other cultures

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Alternative argument

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PTP
-Media reports before trial impact on a jurors decision
-factual and emotional
-Positive and negative about defendant
-Media and tv more influential than just TV