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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 years. Two different forms of the
questionairre were ....
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....le. Nagel and Weitzman offer explanations for this
discrimination, although no clear explanation has been discovered. They
posed that judges assume women to be weaker than men and, thus, the same
result, i.e., rehabilitation or detterance, can be achieved through a
lesser jail sentence. The authors also propose a solution to this problem
of disc.... |
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