The present study
investigated the effects of gender and attractiveness on judgments of bail
requirements, incarceration, and sex offender registration lengths, and
attitudes toward offenders and victims in a teacher-student sexual perpetration
scenario.
Researchers presented 432 undergraduate students at a large
southwestern university with one of four vignettes detailing a sexual
relationship between a 35-year-old teacher and a 14-year-old student. Vignettes
varied by both attractiveness and gender of the offender (using heterosexual
offender-victim dyads).
Results indicate that both gender and attractiveness
affect judgments of sex offenders; specifically, female sexual offenders were
viewed more leniently and judged less punitively than male sexual offenders.
Although attractive female sexual offenders were given particularly lenient
treatment, attractiveness did not affect judgments toward male sex offenders.
In addition, although male and female participants tended to rate male
offenders similarly, male participants were more lenient toward female
offenders than were female participants.
Finally, post hoc analyses revealed
that, for many variables, unattractive female sexual offenders may not be
viewed differently from male sexual offenders. These results have serious
implications for the legal system, sex offender management, and societal views
regarding male and female sexual offenders and their victims.
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- 1University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA emimack@email.arizona.edu.
- 2University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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