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THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY ON CRIME ATTRIBUTION
Author(s) -
FISHMAN GIDEON,
RATTNER ARYE,
WEIMANN GABRIEL
Publication year - 1987
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.1745-9125.1987.tb00808.x
Subject(s) - attribution , ethnic group , affect (linguistics) , psychology , social psychology , ingroups and outgroups , portrait , criminology , sociology , geography , communication , anthropology , archaeology
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.