Title

Shared Race/Ethnicity, Court Procedural Justice, and Self-Regulating Beliefs: A Study of Female Offenders

Authors

Authors

T. Baker; D. M. Amin; K. Dhungana; L. Bedard; J. T. Pickett; K. Golden;M. Gertz

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Law Soc. Rev.

Keywords

POLICE LEGITIMACY; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; PUBLIC CONFIDENCE; PERCEPTIONS; MISCONDUCT; MILLENNIUM; VALIDITY; QUALITY; GENDER; MODELS; Law; Sociology

Abstract

Using survey data from a sample of white, black, and Hispanic incarcerated females (N=554), we examine if the theoretically hypothesized and empirically demonstrated relationship between procedural justice and obligation to obey the law is substantiated among a sample of offenders and explore the impact that sharing the race/ethnicity of the defense attorney and prosecutor in their most recent conviction has on female inmates' perceptions of court procedural justice and their perceived obligation to obey the law. The findings reveal that female offenders who perceive the courts as more procedurally just report a significantly greater obligation to obey the law. In addition, white female inmates who had a white prosecutor were significantly more likely to perceive the courts as procedurally just. Non-whites, though, perceive the courts as more fair if they encountered a minority prosecutor regardless of whether the prosecutor was black or Hispanic.

Journal Title

Law & Society Review

Volume

49

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

433

Last Page

465

WOS Identifier

WOS:000354478800005

ISSN

0023-9216

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