Considering her circumstances: How ethnicity and cultural relativist arguments affect sexual harassment judgments by undergraduate and community mock jurors

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 419-438

  Schwartz, Samantha L ^a   Hunt, Jennifer S ^b  

^a ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PREJUDICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STUDENTS;

EID: 79960456433     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.972     Document Type: Article

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