Effects of remorse and shame and criminal justice experience on judgements about a sex offender

Proeve, Michael; Howells, Kevin

doi:10.1080/10683160512331316271

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“…The Perceived Threat Scale comprised four items modeled after those used in prior research about juvenile offenders in general (Haegerich & Bottoms, 2004;Vidal & Skeem, 2007) and sex offenders specifically (Proeve & Howells, 2006). The five-point response scales ranged from À2 (strongly disagree) to þ2 (strongly agree), and were transformed for analyses to 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).…”

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Psychological mechanisms underlying support for juvenile sex offender registry laws: prototypes, moral outrage, and perceived threat

Salerno

Najdowski

Stevenson

et al. 2010

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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In three studies, we investigated support for applying sex offender registry laws to juveniles. Family law attorneys supported registry laws less for juveniles than for adults. Laypeople and prosecutors supported juvenile and adult sex offender registration equally--even though they perceived juveniles as generally less threatening than adults (Study 1)--because most people spontaneously envision a severe sex offender prototype regardless of offender age (Study 2). People are less supportive of registry laws, however, when they envision less severe prototypes spontaneously (Study 2) or when induced to do so (Study 3). Effects of offender age, offender prototypes, and offense severity were mediated by perceptions of threat posed by the juvenile sex offender (i.e., utilitarian concerns). The effect of offense severity was also mediated by moral outrage (i.e., retributive concerns).

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Psychological mechanisms underlying support for juvenile sex offender registry laws: prototypes, moral outrage, and perceived threat

Salerno

Najdowski

Stevenson

et al. 2010

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…A study by Montepare and Dobish (2003), using somewhat different methods, demonstrated similar effects for expressions of happiness, surprise, anger, sadness, and fear. Further, several studies have found that defendants' expressions of remorse or shame result in reduced sentences (Hogue & Peebles, 1997;Proeve & Howells, 2006;Rumsey, 1976), in part due to the impact of such expressions (or lack thereof) on characterisations of the criminal (Weisman, 2004) and the likelihood of recidivism (Pipes & Alessi, 1999). These studies suggest that the expression of emotion conveys not only a person's momentary emotional state, but also that person's dispositions, which may stimulate trait inference.…”

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When feeling bad makes you look good: Guilt, shame, and person perception

Stearns

Parrott

2012

Cognition & Emotion

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In two studies, we examined how expressions of guilt and shame affected person perception. In the first study, participants read an autobiographical vignette in which the writer did something wrong and reported feeling either guilt, shame, or no emotion. The participants then rated the writer's motivations, beliefs, and traits, as well as their own feelings toward the writer. The person expressing feelings of guilt or shame was perceived more positively on a number of attributes, including moral motivation and social attunement, than the person who reported feeling no emotion. In the second study, the writer of the vignette reported experiencing (or not experiencing) cognitive and motivational aspects of guilt or shame. Expressing a desire to apologise (guilt) or feelings of worthlessness (private shame) resulted in more positive impressions than did reputational concerns (public shame) or a lack of any of these feelings. Our results indicate that verbal expressions of moral emotions such as guilt and shame influence perception of moral character as well as likeability.

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“…To assess participants' utilitarian desire to protect society, participants were asked the following questions on the same five-point scale: ''Registry laws make the community safer by allowing people to keep track of juvenile sex offenders like Tyrone/Jacob in their community,'' ''Tyrone/Jacob is at a high risk for reoffending,'' and ''Tyrone/Jacob poses a danger to society.'' These items were developed by Bumby and Maddox (1999), Malesky and Keim (2001), Proeve and Howells (2006), and Salerno and colleagues (2009).…”

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Effects of defendant and victim race on perceptions of juvenile sex offenders

Stevenson

Sorenson

Smith

et al. 2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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We investigated effects of defendant race, victim race, and juror gender on public perceptions of a juvenile sex offense. We predicted that participants, particularly men, would support registering a juvenile defendant as a sex offender more when he was Black than White and that participants, particularly women, would support registering the defendant more when the female crime victim was portrayed as White than as Black. We also expected that support for registration would be higher when the defendant and victim were different races than when they were the same race. As expected, women (but not men) recommended registration more when the victim was White than Black. Further, participants supported registration more when the defendant and the victim were different races than when they were the same race. These effects were mediated by retributive goals to punish the offender-not by utilitarian goals to protect society. Explanations and implications are discussed.

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Effects of remorse and shame and criminal justice experience on judgements about a sex offender

Cited by 50 publications

References 19 publications

Psychological mechanisms underlying support for juvenile sex offender registry laws: prototypes, moral outrage, and perceived threat

Psychological mechanisms underlying support for juvenile sex offender registry laws: prototypes, moral outrage, and perceived threat

When feeling bad makes you look good: Guilt, shame, and person perception

Effects of defendant and victim race on perceptions of juvenile sex offenders

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