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Relationship Between Social Category And Third-Party Perceptions Of Crime, Sara Roderick
Relationship Between Social Category And Third-Party Perceptions Of Crime, Sara Roderick
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
How social category affects observer perceptions of crime is an interesting topic that can yield many interesting results. Previous research has shown that the social category of individual can hold some influence on how the individual is perceived. Some studies focused on the dispositional qualities attributed to individuals solely based on social category, while other were more concerned with third-party responses to individuals based on social category. Within that same line, this study hoped to replicate findings by Lieberman and Linke (2007) which indicated that the social category of a perpetrator of a crime did indeed have an effect on …
Time And Money: An Examination Of Crime, Sentencing And Corrections Budgeting Issues, Jeanie Thies
Time And Money: An Examination Of Crime, Sentencing And Corrections Budgeting Issues, Jeanie Thies
Missouri Policy Journal
America’s most recent recession has taken a toll on public agency budgets, including criminal justice agencies. More than half of U.S. states have had their corrections budgets reduced in recent years. Fortunately, crime has remained fairly stable during this same time frame, despite fears that unemployment and other social problems created by the recession would fuel crime rates. Yet the budget cuts are hardly without consequence. Correctional agencies have adapted with a variety of measures—layoffs, hiring and wage freezes, cutting treatment programs, eliminating or limiting non-essential services, releasing offenders early, and even closing institutions. All of these could potentially have …
What Fits The Crime: Does Factors Influence In A Person’S Judgment?, Amanda Vance
What Fits The Crime: Does Factors Influence In A Person’S Judgment?, Amanda Vance
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
The purpose and rationale for this experiment is to distinguish if factors such as race, prior offences, type of crime, level of seriousness of the crimes plays a role in a person’s judgment based on the type and severity of punishment. For this study participants were to state the type of punishment that the criminal were to be given for committing a certain crime. There were two independent variables used for the study, the independent variables were the race of the criminal was changed and if the criminal had prior offenses or were a first time offender. The hypothesis was …
Does The Type Of Crime Determine If An Image Of A Certain Criminal Is Pictured?, Amanda Vance
Does The Type Of Crime Determine If An Image Of A Certain Criminal Is Pictured?, Amanda Vance
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
People have culturally been inclined to visualize a perpetrator simply based on the description of the crime. This experiment seeks to determine if a generalized criminal is expressed by the survey group for each crime. Simply put, it will identify if there exists a similar stereotype for each crime described. Each participant completed a questionnaire to identify their demographics. Next was given five crimes which were about robbery, shooting, rape, stolen identity, and murder to read over with the victim and location information omitted. Participants were asked to visualize and describe the perpetrator in each crime scene. The results concluded …
Racial Stereotyping And Physical Perception Of Crime, Jenn Malzone
Racial Stereotyping And Physical Perception Of Crime, Jenn Malzone
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
A statistical analysis conducted by the United States Department of Justice stated that from 1976 to 2002, a surprisingly large number of murders committed were intra-racial, rather than inter-racial. The results claimed that 86% of Caucasian murder victims were killed by other Caucasians, and 94% of African American victims were killed by other African Americans. The present study was conducted to see if the average person perceives interracial crime to be more of a threat. Thirty-seven participants were given the task of assigning photographs of men from the two most prominent ethnic groups in the United States to various negative …