@article{ref1,
title="Effects of Victim, Defendant, and Juror Gender on Decisions in Child Sexual Assault Cases1",
journal="Journal of applied social psychology",
year="2002",
author="Quas, Jodi A. and Bottoms, Bcette L. and Haegerich, Tamara M. and Nysse‐Carris, Kari L.",
volume="32",
number="10",
pages="1993-2021",
abstract="We examined the combined influence of juror, victim, and defendant gender on jurors’ decisions in child sexual abuse cases. Mock jurors read scenarios of an assault case involving a man or woman defendant accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy or girl. Jurors then rendered verdicts and rated the defendant's and victim's believability and responsibility for the abuse. Female jurors were generally more pro-victim in case judgments than were male jurors. Additionally, a woman perpetrator was evaluated more leniently than was a man perpetrator, especially by male jurors when the victim was a boy. Case judgments were unrelated to jurors’ social conservatism, sexism, or attitudes toward homosexuality. Results have implications for understanding social perceptions of mixed- and same-gender abuse involving adolescent victims, and juror decision making in man- and woman-perpetrated child sexual assault cases.<p />",
language="",
issn="0021-9029",
doi="10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb02061.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb02061.x"
}