Stereotypic Crimes: How Group-Crime Associations Affect Memory and (Sometimes) Verdicts and Sentencing

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 278-307

  Skorinko, Jeanine L ^a   Spellman, Barbara A ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

crime stereotypes; jury decision making; offenders; stereotype influences on decision making; stereotype influences on memory; stereotypic crimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879147900     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2012.755140     Document Type: Article

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