Do People Perceive Juvenile Sex Offenders Who Are Gay and Christian as Hypocrites? Social Identity Theory and Dual Identity Defendants

abstract: This study investigates the presence of a dual identity defendant, and how sharing an in-group can create a judgment bias. A sample of 256 participants was used to test whether there was a relationship between judgment punitiveness, perceptions of shared identity, hypocrisy and the social...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Altholz, Rachel Leah (Author)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Law
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24907