Title of article :
Eyewitness testimony for a simulated juvenile crime by male and female criminals with consistent or inconsistent gender-role characteristics
Author/Authors :
Shapiro، نويسنده , , Lauren R.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Eyewitness recall by 60 adolescents and 60 young adults in Experiment 1 and by 64 children and 63 preadolescents in Experiment 2 for a simulated theft in which gender-role characteristics and sex of criminal were manipulated (i.e., masculine male, feminine male, feminine female, masculine female) was investigated. Gender-role flexibility impacted on crime details and accuracy for criminal features and childrenʹs reports included fewer crime and criminal features and central crime details than did preadolescents. Childrenʹs gender-role beliefs differentially affected errors made when describing criminals with inconsistent gender-role characteristics. Adolescents provided fewer crime and criminal details and criminal features than did young adults, although both converted inconsistent into consistent gender-role information for the “feminine male” criminal. Forensic implications of the findings are discussed.
Keywords :
Child witnesses , memory , eyewitness testimony , Adolescent witnesses , Sex/gender-role beliefs , Adult witnesses , Juvenile crime
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics