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Citation

Cramer RJ, Chandler JF, Wakeman EE. J. Interpers. Violence 2010; 25(5): 848-862.

Affiliation

The University of Alabama.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260509336962

PMID

19587296

Abstract

Blame attribution is a valuable mechanism explaining decision making. However, present literature mainly employs blame attribution as a dependent variable. The shortcoming of this fact is that blame attribution offers a potentially valuable explanatory mechanism for decision making. The authors designed two studies to investigate blame attribution as a moderator of sentencing decisions in sexual orientation-based hate crimes. Study 1 showed that mock jurors punished perpetrators of hate crimes more severely than a control condition. Also, degree of victim blame influenced punitive decision making. In Study 2, mock jurors extended findings that perpetrators of hate crimes are more harshly punished than those of other types of crimes. Victim and perpetrator blame failed to moderate decision making in this more complex scenario. Results are discussed in relation to hate crimes definitions and attribution theory.


Language: en

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