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- Title
Sexual stereotyping and judicial sentencing: a legal test of the sociological wisdom.
- Authors
Hagan, John; O'Donnel, Nancy
- Abstract
This paper examines data collected in a western Canadian province on the perception and treatment of women and men in the criminal justice system. A review of the literature on sex and sentencing reveals a widespread assumption that women receive more lenient treatment than men. Although in our data small and consistent differences are found in the severity of treatment received by men and women at various stages in the system, these differences are found not to be statistically significant in a log linear analysts of sex and other relevant variables in the pre-sentencing process. The paper concludes that a continued and unsubstantiated belief in the lenient influence of sexual stereotypes on judicial sentencing has to be re-examined.
- Subjects
CRIMINAL sentencing; GENDER stereotypes; WISDOM; RITES &; ceremonies; EXPERIENCE; SOCIOLOGY of women
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1978, Vol 3, Issue 3, p309
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340308