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Crime seriousness, recidivism risk, and causal attributions in judgments of prison term by students and experts.

John S. Carroll, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1977 - 
- Vol. 62, Iss: 5, pp 595-602
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This article is published in Journal of Applied Psychology.The article was published on 1977-10-01. It has received 84 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Seriousness & Prison.

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The “Science of the Sophomore” Revisited: from Conjecture to Empiricism

TL;DR: In this article, the controversy over using college students as subjects in applied research has been a topic of philosophical discourse and empirical investigation, and thirty-two studies are reviewed in which students and nonstudents participated as subjects under identical conditions.
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Racial disparities in official assessments of juvenile offenders : Attributional stereotypes as mediating mechanisms

TL;DR: This paper examined the links among these factors, focusing specifically on the race of the accused and found that differential attributions about the causes of crime act as a mediating factor between race and sentencing recommendations.
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Religion, attribution style, and punitiveness toward juvenile offenders*

TL;DR: In this article, the authors directly test the hypothesis that a tendency to attribute crime to dispositional factors is the intervening variable linking conservative religious beliefs to punitiveness, and the analysis provides strong support for the hypothesis.
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Priming unconscious racial stereotypes about adolescent offenders.

TL;DR: Unconscious racial stereotypes of decision makers in the juvenile justice system were examined and police officers in the racial prime condition reported more negative trait ratings, greater culpability, and expected recidivism, and they endorsed harsher punishment than didOfficers in the neutral condition.
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