Victim participation in sentencing and satisfaction with justice

Erez, Edna; Tontodonato, Pamela

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“…The assumption that such testimony is psychologically beneficial to victims has received some empirical attention, but deserves more. In one study we know of, actual victims who provided a victim impact statement and whose expectations for trial outcome were not met were less satisfied with sentencing outcomes than victims who did not provide a victim impact statement at all (Erez & Tontodonato, 1992).…”

Section: Victim Impact Statementsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Emotional evidence and jurors' judgments: the promise of neuroscience for informing psychology and law

Salerno¹,

Bottoms²

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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This article is a review of psychological and neuroscience research addressing how juror decision making is influenced by emotion elicited from potentially disturbing evidence such as gruesome autopsy photographs, victim impact statements, and information about a defendant's tragic personal history presented as mitigating evidence. We review (a) converging evidence suggesting that the presence versus absence of such evidence results in more punitive juror judgments, (b) social cognition theories that provide potential explanations for these effects, and (c) neuroscience research aimed at understanding the role of emotion in moral judgments by identifying how brain activity is affected by emotion-eliciting stimuli. We argue that neuroimaging evidence showing that emotional stimuli cause heightened emotion and decreased effortful cognitive processing is relevant in understanding jurors' increased punitiveness after being exposed to emotional evidence, and in turn relevant to debates about the admissibility of emotional evidence in courts of law. Ultimately, we argue for more ecologically valid psychological research to clarify these important issues.

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Section: Victim Impact Statementsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Emotional evidence and jurors' judgments: the promise of neuroscience for informing psychology and law

Salerno¹,

Bottoms²

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Most of victims are not satisfied when they receive no feedback on their impact statement (Erez and Tontodonato 1992;Sanders et al 2001). To speak when no one listens is not satisfying.…”

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“…Several studies reveal that victims who thought their input was ignored showed a lower level of satisfaction with justice (Erez and Tontodonato 1992;Hoyle et al 1998). Victims derive significant satisfaction and validation from judges paying attention to their input by citing victims' own phrases (Erez and Rogers 1999).…”

Section: Research With Crime Victimsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Victim Policy Transfer: Learning From Each Other

Wemmers

2005

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Research has focused on Western nations (Erez and Bienkowska, 1993;Erez and Tontodonato, 1992;Johnson, 2007;Kelly, 1984;Shapland et al, 1985;Wemmers et al, 1995), while there is significantly less evidence of victims' experiences in non-Western societies. This is relevant because Western, developed societies may be relevantly different from both non-Western and/or developing countries.…”

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Victims justice preferences in a collectivist, informal setting: The case of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal

Laxminarayan

Pemberton

2012

International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

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Victims justice preferences in a collectivist, informal settingLaxminarayan, M.S.; Pemberton, A. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractAn abundance of research has emerged in the last 30 years focusing on justice preferences for victims of crime. In general, findings indicate that victims are interested in aspects of procedural justice, interactional justice, restorative justice, retributive justice and behavior control. Under certain conditions, however, these preferences may vary. One dimension that may lead to individuals diverging in their justice preferences is that of culture. The large majority of victimological research on victim legal preferences has been conducted in western jurisdictions. The current research adds to that body of knowledge by examining a different group: Bhutanese refugees residing in refugee camps in Nepal. This examination focuses on their collectivist status and how such cultural differences lead to different styles and characteristics of conflict resolution. It is hypothesized that victims in a collectivist society will primarily be interested in restoration, while voice to the decision maker, voice to the other party and retribution will not be important in predicting overall satisfaction. A multiple regression analysis confirms the hypotheses regarding voice toward the offender, restoration and retribution. Possible reasons for the remaining findings are discussed.

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Victim participation in sentencing and satisfaction with justice

Cited by 80 publications

References 29 publications

Emotional evidence and jurors' judgments: the promise of neuroscience for informing psychology and law

Emotional evidence and jurors' judgments: the promise of neuroscience for informing psychology and law

Victim Policy Transfer: Learning From Each Other

Victims justice preferences in a collectivist, informal setting: The case of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal

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