SOC 3730 Lecture 8: SOC3730; Lecture 8
13 Apr 2016
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Stereotypical beliefs: on how a vicim should behave, jury falls into this category of waning to believe that the vicim should show emoional response. Empirical studies: 2 emoional styles: (high; controlled [aka numb witness ) Judges" percepion (wessel et. al. , 2006: are judges moved by emoions of witnesses? research has been done on this. Showed a video interrogaion and asked to talk about the creditability of the vicim, and their belief on that persons emoions. Credibility (order of importance: ordered irst by there facial expressions, their gaze, gestures, circumstances, and emoional state, overall, judges placed emoional state in the lower state of determining ppls creditability. Not same stereotypes: they know they see the vicim and witness, far removed from the crime. Hearings: delay no that there is a delay between the crime and trial. Therefore they become less emoional, as it happened a while ago. Work with professionals how to deal with tesimony and cross examinaions: done by vicims-progressing canada.
