Stereotype-based judgments of child welfare issues in cases of parent criminality

verfasst von

Alison E.F. Benbow, Stefan Stürmer

Abstract

Approximately 2.5 million children in the European Union and the United States have incarcerated parents, the vast majority of which are fathers. Three experiments modeled on real legal cases (total N = 881) investigated how parent gender affects decisions regarding contact between incarcerated parents and their children. Results showed that measures facilitating relationship maintenance in relevant domains (sentence length, visitation rights, and alleviating postsentencing conditions) were supported less when they involved a father despite identical prior information about the legal case. Mediation analyses suggest two distinct processes explaining these disparities: participants' crime-related attributions, and their stereotypical expectations about the different familial roles of mothers and fathers. Practical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.

Externe Organisation(en)

FernUniversität in Hagen

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Band

47

Seiten

267-281

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

0021-9029

Publikationsdatum

05.2017

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sozialpsychologie

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12436 (Zugang: Geschlossen)