JUDICIAL ATTITUDES TOWARD RAPE VICTIMS (FROM CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS - A READER, 1976 BY WILLIAM B SANDERS AND HOWARD C DAUDISTEL - SEE NCJ-34969)

• NCJ Number: 34977
• Author(s): C BOHMER
• Date Published: 1976
• Length: 8 pages
• Corporate Author: Praeger Publishers
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

RESEARCH, BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH 38 PHILADELPHIA JUDGES, TO DETERMINE THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD RAPE VICTIMS WHO APPEAR IN THEIR COURTROOMS, IN ORDER TO TEST THE ASSUMPTION OF JUDGES' IMPARTIALITY.

Abstract

THE JUDGES IMPRESSIONS OF THE VICTIM - WHETHER SHE APPEARS TO BE A GENUINELY TRAUMATIZED VICTIM, APPEARS TO HAVE ACTED IN AT LEAST A PARTIALLY CONSENUAL MANNER, OR APPEARS TO BE VINDICTIVE, WAS FOUND TO AFFECT THEIR COURTROOM ATTITUDES, AND SUCH MATTER AS WHAT EVIDENCE WOULD BE ACCEPTED, JUDGES WERE FOUND TO BE MOST PROTECTIVE TOWARD CHILD VICTIMS. SOME RESPONSES WERE SAID TO REFLECT RACIAL BIASES.