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Female offenders receive more lenient sentencing than male offenders across all ethnic groups (Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2006).
Research Question: What influence does sex have on perceptions of criminal activity?
Hypothesis: Females will be associated with minor crimes while males will be associated with severe crimes.

Introduction and Literature Review

In our study we used a sample of 105 current college students recruited from Missouri Western State University, by email and word of mouth (convenience sampling).
Out of the 105 responses, only 97 participants fully completed the survey (13.4 % were male and 86.6 % were female).

Participants

A Pearson Chi-Square test was performed to determine the results of crosstabs. Sex has no significance when associating various crimes with either a man or a woman.
A one-way ANOVA test was performed on the demographic variable of race and TITLE IX stalking and found a significant difference, [F (3, 93) = 3.38, p = .022].

Results

Conclusions

There is no significant difference found between the sex of the offender and perception of criminal activity. However, when race is entered into the equation we did find significant results for one crime, stalking.
Latin/Hispanics associate women with being a perpetrator of stalking. This contradicts existing literature of women typically being victims of stalking (Cummings et al., 2012).

References

Cummings, A. M., Gonzalez-Guarda, R. M., & Sandoval, M. F. (2012). Intimate partner violence among hispanics: A review of the literature. Journal of Family Violence, 28(2), 153–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-012-9478-5

Steffensmeier, D., & Demuth, S. (2006). Does gender modify the effects of race–ethnicity on criminal sanctioning? Sentences for male and female white, black, and hispanic defendants. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 22(3), 241–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-006-9010-2

Anna Mayer, Wanda Pearson, Dominique McClunie, Kieran Burkey

Research Team PSY 303: Dr. Chance

The Influence Sex Has on Perceptions of Criminal Activity

Materials and Procedure

The demographic questions include age, gender, race/ethnicity, and class standing.
Google forms survey with 9 scenarios of criminal activity at the campus, state, and federal level.
After the participants gave informed consent, they were asked to complete 9 scenarios of criminal activity and choose the offender they believe committed the given crime at three difference levels: campus, state, and federal.

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