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Offender Sentencing: Gender Disparities.

Byington, Dacoda R.

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紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Offender Sentencing: Gender Disparities./
作者:	Byington, Dacoda R.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	110 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10B.
標題:	Social research. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13810808
ISBN:	9781392011669

Offender Sentencing: Gender Disparities.
Byington, Dacoda R.

Offender Sentencing: Gender Disparities. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 110 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Alliant International University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Though the literature reveals that gender disparities continue to exist among the United States criminal justice system decisions, there is limited research regarding perceptions of offenders and what may be perceived as gender-appropriate sentencing. It was theorized that gender bias may represent an explanation for the presence of disparities amongst offender adjudications. Given the literary limitations regarding this topic, this study aimed to contribute to the understanding of the prevalence of gender bias among the public and how this bias may impact the conceptualization of offenders, leading to differences in adjudication acceptability responses. A total of 82 individuals participated in this study via an online survey. Each participant was required to respond to a written vignette, which described a male and female committing aggravated robbery. This study was designed in a way that requested participants to rate the degree in which they found the offender's adjudication acceptable and to what degree they perceived the offender's gender to have impacted adjudication acceptance decisions. Additionally, participants completed the Gender Role Beliefs Scale (GRBS) and Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) to determine whether the potential presence of gender bias, if any, impacted adjudication acceptability ratings. The findings revealed that older age was the single best predictor of adjudication acceptability ratings for the male offender. The findings also revealed that Traditional gender role belief was significantly correlated with adjudication acceptability ratings for the male offender, yet was not found to have significant predictive power. There was no predictive significance, nor correlative significance, found between gender role belief, sexist attitudes, and adjudication acceptability ratings for the female offender. Overall, based on the responses of the participants in this study, results were not clear enough to suggest whether gender bias was truly a significant cause for the disparities that exist among offender's adjudications. Although the results could not confirm the hypotheses, the current study adds to the limited literature regarding variables that contribute to adjudication acceptability decisions. Future research on this topic is necessary to further explore other possible predictor variables that could be contributing to existing gender disparities among the US criminal justice system decisions.

ISBN: 9781392011669Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122687
Social research.

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