The measurement of concern about victims: Empathy, victim advocacy and the Victim Concern Scale (VCS)

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-295

  Clements, Carl B ^a   Brannen, Dia N ^a   Kirkley, Shalene M ^a   Gordon, Trina M ^a   Church II, Wesley T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OFFENDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PUNISHMENT; RATING SCALE; VICTIM;

EID: 33748633137     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532505X79573     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Abrams, D., Viki, G. T., Masser, B., & Bohner, G. (2003). Perceptions of stranger and acquaintance rape: The role of benevolent and hostile sexism in victim blame and rape proclivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 111-125.
2. Altemeyer, R. A. (1981). Right-wing authoritarianism. Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press.
3. Carlsmith, K. M., Darley, J. M., & Robinson, P. H. (2002). Why do we punish? Deterrence and just desserts as motives for punishment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 284-299.
4. Carroll, J. S., Perkowitz, W. T., & Lurigio, A. J. (1987). Sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 107-118.
5. Clements, C. B., & Brown, K. P. (1998, August). The Crime Attribution Scale: Internal vs. external explanations of crime. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
6. Clements, C. B., Wasieleski, D., Chaplin, W., Kruh, I., & Brown, K. P. (1998). The Sentencing Goals Inventory: Development and validation. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society.
7. Davis, M. H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional Approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 113-126.
8. Flanagan, T., McGarrell, E., & Brown, E. J. (1985). Public perception of the criminal courts: The role of demographic and related attitudinal variables. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 22, 66-82.
9. Greene, E., Koehring, H., & Quiat, M. (1998). Victim impact evidence in capital cases: Does the victim's character matter? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 145-156.
10. Heater, J., Walsh, J., & Sande, G. (2002). Sex and attributions on reactions toward alleged spousal abuse victims. Psychological Reports, 91(1), 243-254.
11. Heider, F. (1958). The psychology of interpersonal relations. New York: Wiley.
12. Hillier, L., & Foddy, M. (1993). The role of observer attitudes in judgments of blame in cases of wife assault. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 29, 629-645.
13. Ireland, J. L. (1999). Provictim attitudes and empathy in relation to bullying behaviour among prisoners. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 4, 51-66.
14. Johnson, L. M., Mullick, R., & Mulford, C. L. (2002). General versus specific victim blaming. Journal of Social Psychology, 142, 249-263.
15. Kaukinen, C., & Colavecchia, S. (1999). Public perception of the courts: An examination of attitudes toward the treatment of victims and the accused. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 41, 365-384.
16. Kelley, H. H. (1972). Causal schemata and the attribution process. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
17. Laner, M. R., Benin, M. H., & Ventrone, N. (2001). Bystander attitudes toward victims of violence: Who's worth helping? Deviant Behavior, 22, 23-42.
18. Melvin, K., Gramling, L. K., & Gardner, W. M. (1985). A scale to measure attitudes toward prisoners. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 12, 241-253.
19. Meyer, C. B., & Taylor, S. E. (1986). Adjustment to rape. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 1226-1234.
20. Mulford, C. L., Lee, M. Y., & Sapp, S. (1996). Victim-blaming and society-blaming scales for social problems. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 1324-1336.
21. Myers, B., & Greene, E. (2004). The prejudicial nature of victim impact statements: Implications for capital sentencing policy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10, 492-515.
22. Overholser, J. C., & Moll, S. H. (1990). Who's to blame: Attributions regarding causality in spouse abuse. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 8, 107-120.
23. Reynolds, S. L. (1997). Authoritarianism and reactions toward rape victims [Abstract]. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B, 57(12-B), 7741.
24. Ross, L. (1978). The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Cognitive theories in social psychology (Vol. 10). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
25. Schumacher, J. (1991). Decision error tolerance and attitudes towards crime control: Measuring values towards judicial decisions. Unpublished dissertation, University of Alabama.
26. Sprott, J., & Doob, A. (1997). Fear, victimization, and attitudes to sentencing, the courts, and the police. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 39, 275-291.
27. Wandrei, M. L., & Rupert, P. A. (2000). Professional psychologists' conceptualizations of intimate partner violence. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 37, 270-283.
28. White, B., & Robinson-Kurpius, S. E. (1999). Attitudes towards rape victims: Effects of gender and professional status. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14, 989-995.