Gender, race, and formal court decision-making outcomes: Chivalry/paternalism, conflict theory or gender conflict?

Franklin, Cortney A.; Fearn, Noelle E.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2008.04.009

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“…victims receive the harshest sanctions as compared to other gender dyads (Curry et al 2004;Franklin and Fearn 2008). Although the impacts of offender-victim dyads on sentencing decisions has been established, to our knowledge dyadic considerations have not been examined in reference to the antecedents of sentencing, offender dangerousness and offense severity.…”

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“…Accounting for this relational consideration, offender-victim dyad research has investigated differences in the social composition of these dyads and found that varying the relative differences between offender and victim does impact sentencing (Baldus, Woodworth, and Pulaski 1990;Curry, Lee and Rodriguez 2004;Franklin and Fearn 2008;Holcomb, Williams and Demuth 2004). Although the majority of this research does not focus on evaluations of offender dangerousness and offense severity it is telling that relative differences do matter in sentencing decisions.…”

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Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Dilks

McGrimmon

Thye

2015

Social Science Research

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This research uses status characteristics theory to expand our knowledge of the effects of status variables (e.g., race, education) and emotional displays on the antecedents of sentencingevaluations of offender dangerousness and offense seriousness. We present a theoretical formulation that combines three areas of status characteristics research -reward expectations, individual evaluative settings and valued personal characteristics. The result is a quantitative measure that aggregates relative differences in demographic and emotional characteristics between offenders and their victims. The significance of this expectation advantage measure (e) in predicting evaluations of offender dangerousness and offense severity is tested using data from a vignette study. We find empirical support that expectation advantage significantly predicts these sentencing antecedents but not sentencing outcomes directly. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for future status and criminological research.

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Section: The Offender-victim Dyadmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Dilks

McGrimmon

Thye

2015

Social Science Research

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“…The chivalry hypothesis explains, in part, why men may respond either indifferently or more positively to female criminal suspects compared to male criminal suspects. The c hivalry hypothesis states that women should be protected from prison and the criminal justice system and treated with more leniency than their male counterparts (Belknap, 2007;Bickle & Peterson, 1991;Franklin & Fearn, 2008;Moulds, 1980;Koons-Witt et al, 2014). This perspective posits that leniency or preferential treatment is given to women as long as they adhere to traditional gender roles (Koons-Witt et al, 2014).…”

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Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice: Do Female Stereotypes Supersede In-group Favoritism Among Men When Evaluating Female Criminal Suspects in News Stories?

Appiah¹,

Holt²,

Dale³

et al. 2017

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Some scholars argue that stereotypes of women as docile and non-violent result in women receiving leniency from the public compared to men who commit identical crimes. However, others assert that women who commit violent crimes violate traditional gender roles, which can lead the public to evaluate them more harshly than their male counterparts. M ore than 900 adults read news stories about either a woman abusing a man or a man abusing a woman before evaluating the criminal suspect. Female participants showed in-group favoritism towards criminal suspects that matched their gender. Conversely, male participants did not show a preference for their in-group.Overall, both male and female participants were more likely to believe the crime was justified, have more sympathy for the criminal suspect, assign less jail time, and have a more positive attitude towards the suspect when the criminal suspect was female vis-à-vis male. These findings were more pronounced when there was a non-fatal crime compared to a crime involving a fatality. Chivalry hypothesis and social identity theory are discussed.

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“…ej., más débiles, víctimas objetivo, más creíbles y maternales) también ha jugado en contra de la aceptación de su papel como agresoras (Embry y Lyons, 2012). Al efecto que se ha dado históricamente al tratar de forma diferente a la mujer delincuente se le ha denominado caballerosidad, aunque también se ha considerado sexismo benevolente, paternalismo o incluso patriarcado (Franklin y Fearn, 2008). En esencia, las mujeres que se ajustan al estereotipo son tratadas de forma benévo-la mientras que las que se distancian son castigadas de forma más grave (véase Moore y Padavic, 2010).…”

Section: Sesgo Jurídico Y Policialunclassified

Mujeres delincuentes violentas

Loinaz¹

2014

Psychosocial Intervention

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Palabras clave: Delincuencia femenina Riesgo de violencia Psicopatía Tratamiento Reincidencia Keywords: Female crime Violence risk Psychopathy Treatment Recidivism R E S U M E NLa delincuencia violenta femenina es poco atendida en países hispanohablantes. La presente revisión resume los principales avances acumulados internacionalmente en la última década (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) sobre el estudio de la mujer como sujeto violento y/o delincuente. Se analizan la violencia contra la pareja (VCP) y sexual cometida por mujeres, la evaluación de la psicopatía y del riesgo de violencia, el tratamiento de estas agresoras y su reincidencia. Aunque la amplitud temática impide analizar exhaustivamente todos los delitos (no se incluye el maltrato infantil, por ejemplo), la revisión permite concluir que: existen sesgos jurídicos y policiales en el tratamiento de la mujer delincuente, las mujeres pueden cometer el mismo tipo de VCP y con motivaciones similares a los hombres, la violencia sexual es poco frecuente pero existen muchas limitaciones en su estudio, la predicción del riesgo de violencia inespecífica es factible con las herramientas disponibles, la psicopatía es menos prevalente en mujeres pero las diferencias con varones se reducen en población juvenil, el conocimiento sobre el tratamiento de estas agresoras es muy limitado y sin evidencias sobre su efectividad y las tasas de reincidencia son bajas (aunque la información disponible es escasa). Se discuten las principales implicaciones y líneas de interés. A B S T R A C TFemale violent offending is an understudied topic in Spanish-speaking countries. This review explores the major research findings accumulated internationally over the last decade (2003-2013) about women's violence and crimes. The focus of the review is the intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence committed by females, the psychopathy and violence risk assessment, and the treatment and recidivism of these female offenders. Although the female offender topic is too wide to review all crime typologies (child physical abuse is not included, for example) the review indicates that: there are legal and police biases in the treatment of women offenders; women can commit the same IPV and share the motivations of male offenders; sexual violence has a low prevalence, but there are many limitations in this research topic; predicting the risk of non-specific violence is feasible with the available tools; psychopathy is less prevalent among adult female offenders, although there are fewer differences with male offenders among adolescent samples; research about treatments is very limited and there are not effectiveness evidences; and last, recidivism rates for violent crimes are very low (in cases where information is available). Main implications and research lines are discussed.

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Gender, race, and formal court decision-making outcomes: Chivalry/paternalism, conflict theory or gender conflict?

Cited by 92 publications

References 114 publications

Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice: Do Female Stereotypes Supersede In-group Favoritism Among Men When Evaluating Female Criminal Suspects in News Stories?

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