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Citation |
Ebbesen EB, Konecni VJ. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1975; 32(5): 805-821. |
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(Copyright © 1975, American Psychological Association) |
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Abstract |
Conducted 2 studies with a total of 18 municipal and superior court judges to determine how real felony court judges decide the amount of bail to set. In Exp I, the judges were presented with fictitious case histories containing the relevant information in a factorial design. In Exp II, multiple regression techniques were used to examine the impact of different kinds of information on decisions made by judges in actual bail hearings. In the simulated cases, the judges seemed to be influenced most by the degree to which the accused was tied to the area and whether he or she had a prior criminal record. However, the judges' actual bail decisions were not at all affected by these variables. Instead, their decisions were almost exclusively determined by the district attorneys' recommendations. Both the district attorneys' and the defense attorneys' actual recommendations were primarily based upon the severity of the crime. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |