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SOCIAL CLASS AS A FACTOR AFFECTING JUDICIAL DISPOSITION Defendants Charged with Criminal Homosexual Acts
Author(s) -
WILLICK DANIEL H.,
GEHLKER GRETCHEN,
McFARLAND WATTS ANITA
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1975.tb00654.x
Subject(s) - disposition , proposition , criminology , psychology , class (philosophy) , social psychology , law , political science , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence
This article examines the proposition that criminal defendants from lower social classes receive more severe judicial disposition than do criminal defendants from hgher social classes Evidence from cases involving prosecution for felonious homosexual acts does not lend much support to the proposition that there is social class bias in judicial disposition of criminal cases. Several models are discussed which might be used to orient future research into how courts handle criminal cases .