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- Title
Pretrial Predictors of Judgments in the O.J. Simpson Case.
- Authors
Peacock, M. Jean; Cowan, Gloria; Bommersbach, Mimi; Smith, Shanda Y.; Stahly, Geraldine
- Abstract
This article focuses on the results of a questionnaire designed to assess judgments regarding former football player O.J. Simpson's guilt in the trial for the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson. One of the most interesting phenomena in the lengthy O.J. Simpson case was the early polarization of attitudes regarding Simpson's guilt or innocence. In the aftermath of the Simpson trial, the remaining division in opinion represented two important social values, the value of a society in which people of color have rights and obtain treatment equal to that of the dominant group, and the value of a society in which male violence does not order women's lives. The major point about the predictors of perceived guilt is that attitudes about the case itself, not general attitudes, predicted beliefs about guilt most strongly.
- Subjects
O. J. Simpson Trial; SOCIAL values; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); TRIALS (Law); LEGAL judgments; JUDICIAL process
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1997, Vol 53, Issue 3, p441
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1997.tb02121.x