After a guilty verdict- prison alternatives
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- After a Guilty Verdict- Prison Alternatives
- Restorative Justice
- Background-Cognitive
- Challenges stereotypes, increases guilt, change how offenders see behaviour and impact
- Sherman and Strang
- Aim- review good practice in restorative justice and assess effectiveness
- Method- Content analysis on 424 papers on RJ
- Internet search on "restorative justice" "re-offending" "recidivism" "mediation"
- 36 studies compared re-offending with or without RJ
- Internet search on "restorative justice" "re-offending" "recidivism" "mediation"
- Results- RJ reduced re-offending for violence and property crime
- Improved victims mental health
- Conclusion- Rj is effective allowing offender to see harm caused
- Challenges thought processes, stereotypes, reduces PTSD and re-offending
- Background-Cognitive
- Probation
- Background- Operant conditioning
- Positive reinforcement- not in prison, earning money, see family
- Negative reinforcement- threat of prison
- Study- Mair and may
- Aim- Study experiences of offenders on probation
- Method- Questionnaire, piloted
- 3299 offenders chosen random from 22 office, all ages and offences
- Closed questions on offenders life, employment, family, likelihood of re offending
- 3299 offenders chosen random from 22 office, all ages and offences
- Background- Operant conditioning
- Looking death worthy?
- Background- Stereotyping black features
- More stereo typically black features are more likely to be given a death penalty
- Stereotypes associated with positive and negatives
- Black face seen as less attractive by white people
- Associated with negative characteristics
- Black face seen as less attractive by white people
- Study-Eberhart
- Aim- "stereo typically black feature more likely to get a death sentence than white person"
- Method- Lab experiment, data base analysis of death eligible cases in Phila
- 44 cases a black man murdered a white victim
- 51 naive raters shown photo b+w photo of offender, 4 secs
- Use facial features to rate how stereo typically black (11 scale)
- 51 naive raters shown photo b+w photo of offender, 4 secs
- 44 cases a black man murdered a white victim
- Results-Multiple variables analysed incl attractiveness
- Most sig variable was stereo-typicality of features
- Black defendants death penalty 57.5% of time
- Less stereotypically black 24.4% of time
- Conclusion- Race a blame worthy factor in trial
- Judge and jurors should be made aware
- Background- Stereotyping black features
- Restorative Justice
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