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Characteristics of Defendant - Coggle Diagram
Characteristics
of Defendant
Stereotyping
=oversimplified
label of group of
people
Labelling Becker
=e.g Bessemer
give labels to
defendant based
on appearance
Social Identity
Theory
not guilty if
ingroup member
guilty if our group member
=more likely to stereotype
Schema Theory
=schemas surrounding
certain characteristics
Attractiveness
Sigall and Osgrove
=attractive defendants
shorter sentences
=longer for fraud (use
beauty to commit crime)
Castellow et al
=guilty when female
secretary was attractive
and male was
unattractive
Abwender and Hough
=females more lenient to
attractive female def
=males more lenient to
unattracyive males
Halo Effect
=one good feature
like beauty leads to
stereotyping of more
traits like being good and
wealthy
=Dion Et Al
Race
Stahly and Walker
=social identity
=African Americans
blamed police racism
=White Americans
focused on evidence
Bradbury and
Williams
=use real jury
=white jurors more
likely to convict black
def
=black juror less
likely to convict
black def
=in group out group
bias
Skolnick and
Shaw
Guilty verdict
was 15% less for
white j black d
than black k and
white d
BUT
= lab based
=social desirability
to not be racist
Accents
Mahoney and
Dixon
=Non Brummie students
=Brummie accent was
perceived as more guilty
than non brummie
Seggie
=Australia
=standard accent
more guilty for white
collar crime
=broad accent
more guilty for
blue collar crime