Sex Differences in Rated Seriousness of Crimes
| Autor: | Charles I. Brooks, Dean C. White, Katherine C. Kormos |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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education 05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology social sciences humanities Harm 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 0503 education Social psychology health care economics and organizations General Psychology Seriousness media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 70:867-870 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.1992.70.3.867 |
| Popis: | 61 male and 84 female college students completed a 25-item “Attitudes Toward Crime” survey designed to examine ratings of seriousness of crimes. In the survey, the perpetrator of the crime was always a male, but the victim was either a male or a female. Also, subjects compared the seriousness of the crimes with respect to harmful psychological consequences for the victim versus harmful consequences for society at large. Analysis showed a same-sex bias which varied with the type of harm. Men saw little harm to society compared to women, but only when the victim was a man. When individual harm was the issue, however, women saw more harmful consequences than men, but only when the victim was a woman. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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