JDM (characteristics) Flashcards
What factors is JDM affected by?
-Race
-Gender
-Attractiveness
What may these factors influence?
Who the jury sees as guilty or not guilty
-More likely to give a certain verdict
Attractiveness (4)
-What is beautiful is good
-Halo effect
-Those considered more attractive more likely to be found not guilty or treated more leniently
-Cognitive bias
What crime is attractiveness more influential for?
-Serious non-fatal crimes like burglary
-Less effective for fatal (murder) or if use attractiness to do crime (more likely guilty)
Strength of attractiveness (study)
-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
Strength of attractivness (study 2)
-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.
Weakness of attractiveness (c)
-Hard to measure
-ppt variables
-Subjective
-reduces cred of explanation
Gender
-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
Weakness of gender (Study)
-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
Strength of gender (study)
-Thomas 2011
-23% men guilty of murder, only 20% females
-mock jury
-women more likely manslaughter
-Depends on crime, but female is advantage
Weakness of gender (RM method)
-Mock juries
-Not representative
-Made up of students
-redcues cred of theory as validity of cruse nad leigh reduced
Race
-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
Strength of race(study)
-Carter and Mazzula
-Mock jurors
-In group and outgroup bias when deciding employment case
Another strength of race (study)
-Duncan
-Film of one man pushing another
-B pushed w 75% saw violent
-W pushing B 17%
Weakness for race (H)
-Ethnocentric research
-diff countries have diff legal rules. some research not gen to other cultures