Essay Archive - Gender Effects on Criminal Sentencing
Gender Effects on Criminal Sentencing
Abstract
The effects of gender of judges and criminals in a criminal trial
were investigated. Thirty-seven subjects, 17 males and 20 females, filled
out a questionairre detailing the results of a criminal trial and acted as
a judge awarding a sentence, in years. Two different forms of the
questionairre were given, varying the gender of the criminal. Significant
effects for the gender of the criminal, alpha = .1, were found. This
result was congruent with the hypothesis and with previous studies.
Possible reasons for this discrepancy inclu....
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