Social Contexts and Attributions of Criminal Responsibility

Martha A. Myers

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This paper investigates whether attributions of responsibility for crime are constrained by the contexts within which criminal action occurs and within which responsibility for them is assigned. Data on the verdicts of actual jurors are used to test hypotheses from the experimental and field literatures. The findings indicate that both action and attribution contexts shape attributions by affecting the salience of evidence and of victim and defendant characteristics such as prior record and race. But consistent support for some experimentally-based hypotheses about the actor, victim, and severity of the act's consequences suggests that there may be cross-contextual similarities in attributions as well. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for attribution research and theory.

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