The effects of victim gender identity, juror gender, and judicial instructions on victim blaming, crime severity ratings, and verdicts in sexual assault trials

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorCarter, Lisa M.
dc.contributor.authorGoodmon, Leilani B.
dc.contributor.authorUrs, Medhini
dc.contributor.authorRutledge-Jukes, Heath
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-16T22:13:53Z
dc.date.available2022-03-16T22:13:53Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-18
dc.description.abstractTransgender individuals may experience social discrimination and unfair legal considerations as crime victims. The current purpose was to investigate the relationship between the participant/jurors’ gender, the victims’ gender identity, and judge’s instructions to ignore the gender identity of the victim on perceptions of the victim and the crime and verdicts rendered in a sexual assault case. Overall, crime severity ratings were significantly lower for the trans male victim compared to the cisgender female victim. Male participants reported lower crime severity ratings for trials involving transgender victims compared to cisgender victims. However, victim blaming, likelihood that the defendant committed the crime, sentencing recommendations, verdict confidence, and conviction rates did not vary by the victim’s gender identity, the participant’s gender identity, nor the judge’s instructions. Participant gender as a predictor of verdict approached significance, indicating a trend for males to render more not guilty verdicts and females to render more guilty verdicts. In summary, male jurors perceived the crimes involving transgender victims as less severe and this may have impacted the rate of not guilty verdicts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCarter, L. M., Goodmon, L. B., Urs, M., & Rutledge-Jukes, H. (2022). The effects of victim gender identity, juror gender, and judicial instructions on victim blaming, crime severity ratings, and verdicts in sexual assault trials. Journal of Homosexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.2018877en_US
dc.identifier.issn0091-8369
dc.identifier.other10.1080/00918369.2021.2018877
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=psyh&AN=2022-34861-001&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s5615486
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11416/598
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectTransgender peopleen_US
dc.subjectVerdictsen_US
dc.subjectVictims of crimesen_US
dc.subjectJurorsen_US
dc.titleThe effects of victim gender identity, juror gender, and judicial instructions on victim blaming, crime severity ratings, and verdicts in sexual assault trialsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Collections

Criminology