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Gender Effects On Criminal Sentencing
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Central Michigan University
Abstract
The effects of gender of judges and criminals in a criminal trial
were investigated. Thirty-seven subjects, 17 males and 20 females, filled
out a questionairre detailing the results of a criminal trial and acted as
a judge awarding a sentence, in year ....
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....sult, i.e., rehabilitation or detterance, can be achieved through a
lesser jail sentence. The authors also propose a solution to this problem
of discrimination, saying that by increasing the public's awareness of this
issue, a greater equality can be achieved.
In another literature review (Anderson, 1976), two types of
chivalrous treatment of women are discussed. Both result in discrimination
in the favor of the woman; the notion that women have completely different
motives than men, and that.... |
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