Effects of Legal Education and Work Experience on Perceptions of Crime Seriousness

McCleary, Richard; O'Neil, Michael J.; Epperlein, Thomas; Jones, Constance J.; Gray, Ronald H.

doi:10.2307/800303

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“…Later work, including studies by Rossi et al [9] in 1974, Rossi and Henry [10] in 1980 and McCleary et al [11] in 1981, all found agreement with [7] that there exists a general social consensus on the severity of crimes. Further, Hansel [12] identified that crimes can be described based on a number of dimensions including the level of violence involved, the harm done to victims, the relatedness to sex, and so on.…”

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Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the police and community partners

Uthmani

Buchanan

Lawson

et al. 2011

Information & Communications Technology Law

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The aim of this paper is to provide profiles for crimes which can be used to model the context for information sharing between the police and community partner organisations. This context can then be integrated with information-sharing syntax used by Single Point of Contact (SPoC) agents to process information sharing requests [1]. The questionnaires attempt to classify crimes into categories, with identify profiles of crime-types, according to the level of information sharing they necessitate between community partner organisations. Crimes are separated into classifications, which are based on the perceived level of necessary informationexchange among police and community partners. The aim of the questionnaire is to gather academic responses to identify the level of risk in order that it can be defined as risk assessment level, which is key to enhancing the public"s reassurance in the police.

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Section: General Consensus On Crime Severity Levelssupporting

confidence: 58%

Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the police and community partners

Uthmani

Buchanan

Lawson

et al. 2011

Information & Communications Technology Law

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“…Finally, because the theory proposes societal norms and attitudes as the basis for the differential treatment of offenders, one would need to study crime judgments among the general public in order to complement extant evidence from concrete decisions taken by law enforcement employees (e.g., police officers, prosecutors, judges). Even though some studies have revealed corresponding judgment patterns for law enforcement personnel and society as a whole (e.g., Corbett & Simon 1991; Levi & Jones 1985; McCleary et al 1981), chivalry theory has not been tested on a sample of the general public, which would more closely represent overarching societal norms.…”

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Chivalry and the Moderating Effect of Ambivalent Sexism: Individual Differences in Crime Seriousness Judgments

Herzog

Oreg

2008

Law Soc Rev

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Previous studies have shown that female offenders frequently receive more lenient judgments than equivalent males. Chivalry theories argue that such leniency is the result of paternalistic, benevolent attitudes toward women, in particular toward those who fulfill stereotypical female roles. Yet to date, studies have not examined whether such leniency is indeed associated with paternalistic societal attitudes toward women. The present study goes beyond the investigation of demographics and employs Glick and Fiske's (1996) concepts of hostile and benevolent sexism. We use these concepts to highlight the role of individual differences in attitudes toward women as a key to our understanding of lenient attitudes toward female offenders. Eight hundred forty respondents from a national sample of Israeli residents evaluated the seriousness of hypothetical crime scenarios with (traditional and nontraditional) female and male offenders. As hypothesized, hostile and benevolent sexism moderate the effect of women's ''traditionality'' on respondents' crime seriousness judgments and on the severity of sentences assigned.

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“…This may also reflect the attention given to such cases by the media and the general public. Kidnapping, crimes ending in victim death, and rape are considered to be the most serious crimes an offender can commit according to previous research that surveyed law enforcement and court officials (McCleary, O’Neil, Epperlein, Jones, & Gray, 1981; Pontell, Granite, Keenan, & Geis, 1985), and the perceptions of crime seriousness are similar when surveying the general public (Kwan, Chiu, Ip, & Kwan, 2002). Child pornography consumption and distribution are also seen as severe crimes in the eyes of the general public.…”

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Time to Apprehension and the Correlates of Warrant Closure

Craun

Tiedt

2016

Crime & Delinquency

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To understand how offenders are caught, past research has focused on case closures, which combines the identification and apprehension of a fugitive. However, there is a gap in applied research concerning duration to apprehension and variation in time to capture by crime. This study examined the days to close arrest warrants using administrative data containing 1.3 million cases. A Cox proportional hazards model demonstrated that sex crimes involving contact or encompassing child pornography/exploitation, kidnapping, sex offender registration violations, and warrants involving assaults or an armed/dangerous notation had the strongest relationships to warrant closure. The results illustrate the prioritizing of cases involving sex offenders and violent offenders, as well as underscoring a need for future research on time to warrant closure.

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Effects of Legal Education and Work Experience on Perceptions of Crime Seriousness

Cited by 44 publications

References 9 publications

Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the police and community partners

Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the police and community partners

Chivalry and the Moderating Effect of Ambivalent Sexism: Individual Differences in Crime Seriousness Judgments

Time to Apprehension and the Correlates of Warrant Closure

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