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- Title
Criminal Sentence Recommendations in a Simulated Rape Trial: Examining Juror Prejudice in Canada.
- Authors
Rector, Neil A.; Bagby, R. Michael
- Abstract
This experiment examined the moderating influence of judicial instructions on prejudicial sentencing recommendations in a simulated videotaped rape trial. Subjects were 243 Canadian university students who were randomly assigned to one to eight conditions and asked to assume the role of juror. In the rape trial, the race of the defendant and victim were varied (either White or Black) and in a half of the conditions the judge's instructions to the jury were excluded. Results indicated a 2 (defendant race) × 2 (victim race) × 2 (judicial instructions) interactions with inter-racial rape generating longer sentence recommendations in the presence of judicial instructions and intra-racial rape eliciting longer sentence allotment in the absence of judicial instructions. Results are contrasted with reports on juror decision-making in the U.S.
- Subjects
JUDGMENT (Psychology); CRIMINAL sentencing; TRIALS (Law); JURORS; RAPE laws; DECISION making; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1995, Vol 13, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370130108