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Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology

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Stereotypes of Criminals and Judgement

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2010, v.24 no.2, pp.27-49
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.2.002


& (2010). Stereotypes of Criminals and Judgement. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 24(2), 27-49, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.2.002

Abstract

The present study investigated stereotypes of criminals of Koreans(Study 1) and their effect on judgement regarding the crime(Study 2). Undergraduate students(N=271) and adults(N=248) participated in Study 1 which was designed to examine the perception of the characteristics of criminals (homicide, violence, sexual offense, robbery, larceny, fraud, embezzlement and gang) in terms of the category of sex, education, social standing, urban or suburban, race, bracket and region. The result demonstrated that people perceived each crime was related to specific patterns of demographic characteristics. In Study 2, we investigated the effects of stereotypes of criminals on the judgement of the criminal acts. In half of the cases, the target's criminal act(theft or fraud) was stereotypic of the target's ethnic group(conveyed through his name), Koreans or Southeast Asians immigrants,and in the other half cases it was not. After reading the script describing either fraud or theft, subjects judged the causes of the crime, the likelihood that the crime would recur and recommended punishment for the offense. The results demonstrated that the Korean fraud (i.e., Korean stereotypic crime) in comparison with the fraud committed by Southeast Asians was attributed more to stable and persistent factors. Furthermore, male participants perceived the Southeast Asian theft as being more likely to repeat the crime than Korean theft while they perceived Korean swindler more likely to repeat the crime than the Southeast Asian swindler, as expected. Finally, the effect of the stereotype-consistency of the crime on the judgment of recidivism was mediated by the degree of internal attribution. We discussed about the theoretical as well as the practical implications of these results.

keywords
crime, stereotypes of criminals, characteristics of the criminal, race, judgement, 범죄자, 고정관념, 처벌판단, 범죄유형, 인종

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