RT Article
T1 Does Victim Gender Increase Sentence Severity? Further Explorations of Gender Dynamics and Sentencing Outcomes
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 50
IS 3
SP 319
OP 343
A1 Curry, Theodore R.
A2 Lee, Gang
A2 Rodriguez, S. Fernando
LA Undetermined
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1526125595
AB Theoretical and empirical research pertaining to the influence of gender on sentencing outcomes has focused almost exclusively on the gender of offenders. What this literature has not fully considered is how the gender of crime victims might affect sentencing outcomes. using data for offenders convicted of three violent crimes in the seven largest metro counties in Texas in 1991, the authors find evidence that offenders who victimized females received substantially longer sentences than offenders who victimized males. Results also show that victim gender effects on sentence length are conditioned by offender gender, such that male offenders who victimized females received the longest sentence of any other victim gender/offender gender combination. However, whereas these effects are observed for sentence length, no victim gender effects are observed on whether offenders received an incarcerative or nonincarcerative sentence. The authors address the implications of their findings for theory and subsequent research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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K1 Strafzumessung
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DO 10.1177/0011128703256265