THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON CRIME ATTRIBUTION |
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Authors: | GIDEON FISHMAN ARYE RATTNER GABRIEL WEIMANN |
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Affiliation: | University of Haifa, Israel |
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Abstract: | This study investigates the impact of ethnic origin on the attribution of criminal offenses to faces seen in portrait photographs. The underlying hypothesis is that ethnic stereotypes are a result of the way people perceive themselves and other groups (that is, the relation of in-groups to outgroups) and that ethnic stereotypes directly affect a person's readiness to attribute particular offenses to given portraits. Thus, this study explores cross-ethnic and intra-ethnic offense attribution. |
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