EFFECTS OF CRIME SERIOUSNESS AND OFFENDER FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS ON RECOMMENDED TREATMENT
A total of 384 undergraduates in 12 experimental conditions representing crime seriousness, defendant facial attractiveness, and cueing of attractiveness, read a crime description then made recommendations for offender treatment. Although severity of punishment was greater for a murder
than for a robbery, it did not differ between more and less attractive defendants. However, the less attractive robbers were more likely to be recommended psychiatric care than the more attractive ones. Since the latter were rated as only moderately good-looking, it is suggested that an “ugly
is bad” stereotype may apply to mental illness but not to crime.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 1993
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