Victim impact statements and crime heinousness: a test of the saturation hypothesis

Myers, Bryan; Roop, Allison; Kalnen, Deborah; Kehn, Andre

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2011.614244

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“…Other studies have found more modest effects of VIS on sentencing (e.g., Myers, Godwin, Latter, & Winstanley, 2004;Myers, Roop, kalnen, & kehn, 2013). In instances in which sentencing judgments were not measured, researchers have found VIS significantly affects judgments that are relevant to sentencing.…”

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The Impact of Angry Versus Sad Victim Impact Statements on Mock Jurors’ Sentencing Decisions in a Capital Trial

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The present study tested the effects of angry and sad victim impact statements (VIS) on jury eligible participants' decisions. Death qualified participants (N = 581) watched the penalty phase of a capital trial that varied the presence and emotional content of the VIS (angry, sad, or no VIS) along with the strength of mitigating evidence (weak or strong). Results revealed that Angry VIS led to an increase in death sentences, whereas Sad VIS did not. Furthermore, participants who reported becoming angry during the trial were more likely to render a death sentence, but participants who became sad during the trial were not. No interaction was found between VIS and strength of mitigating evidence, but participants exposed to the angry VIS did rate the mitigating evidence as less important to their decisions. The results indicate that VIS are not inherently biasing, nor are all emotions equally impactful on sentencing decisions.

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The Impact of Angry Versus Sad Victim Impact Statements on Mock Jurors’ Sentencing Decisions in a Capital Trial

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Myers

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…7 If successful, this approach might secure greater public confidence without 6 While some argue that victim impact statements might influence juries to support harsher sentences (Myers et al, 2013), there is convincing evidence that sentencing does not become more punitive with victim impact statements (Roberts 2009). …”

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Brooks, Thom (2014) This is a draft of a chapter that was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the book 'Popular Punishment: On the Normative Signicance of Public Opinion' edited by Jesper Ryberg and Julian V. Roberts and published in 2014.Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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