Crime and punishment: the impact of skin color and socioeconomic status of defendants and victims in jury trials in Brazil
Span. j. psychol
; 19: e77.1-e77.11, 2016. tab, graf
Artigo
em Inglês
| IBECS
| ID: ibc-160292
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Localização: BNCS
ABSTRACT
Social judgments are often influenced by racism. Voluntary crimes against life, and in particular the crime of homicide, may be the most critical situations of the impact of racism in social judgments. We analyzed 114 homicide trials conducted by the 1st Jury Court, in a Brazilian judicial capital, concluded between 2003 and 2007, for the purpose of investigating the effects of skin color and the socioeconomic status of the defendant and the victim of homicides in the jury trial courts decision. The results indicate that the social and economic profile of defendants and victims of homicide is identical. They are almost all poor (more than 70%), with low education (more than 73%) and frequently non-Whites (more than 88%). We found that judges assign longer sentences to black (β = .34, p = .01) and poor defendants (β = .23, p < .05). We even verified that the poorer the defendant, the higher was the corresponding conviction rate (Walds Test = 5.90, p < .05). The results are discussed based on theories of social psychology and criminological sociology, which consider the relationship between skin color and socioeconomic status in social judgments and in discrimination (AU)
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Coleções:
Bases de dados nacionais
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Espanha
Contexto em Saúde:
Agenda de Saúde Sustentável para as Américas
Problema de saúde:
Objetivo 11 Desigualdades e iniquidades na saúde
Base de dados:
IBECS
Assunto principal:
Preconceito
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Classe Social
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Racismo
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Homicídio
Aspecto:
Determinantes sociais da saúde
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Equidade e iniquidade
Limite:
Adulto
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Span. j. psychol
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Promotoria de Justiça do Estado de Sergipe/Brazil
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Universidade Federal de Sergipe/Brazil