Effects of victim, defendant, and juror gender on decisions in child sexual assault cases

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1993-2021

  Quas, Jodi A ^b   Bottoms, Bette L ^a   Haegerich, Tamara M ^a   Nysse Carris, Kari L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0036825848     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb02061.x     Document Type: Article

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