What is it about?
A criminal offense might be viewed through the lens of the coping strategy adopted by its perpetrator. To investigate this, we presented our participants with vignettes describing a high school student who has committed an offense. We were able to demonstrate the moderating effect of depicted coping strategy on rated seriousness of offense. This differential judgment was itself a function of the judge s own coping strategy. Our findings support a contextual or transactional approach to the study of rated seriousness of offenses.
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Why is it important?
See also this paper: Cohen-Raz, L., Bozna, M., & Glicksohn, J. (1997). Figure and ground in the perception of crime severity. International Journal of Group Tensions, 27, 151-158.
Perspectives
Another MA seminar paper, under my supervision, looking at the trait-context interaction, instantiated in vignettes, as influencing the perception of crime severity.
Professor Joseph Glicksohn
Bar-Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: Do Coping Styles Influence the Way We Judge Criminal Offenses? A Preliminary Investigation, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, June 1998, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0306624x9804200205.
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