Gary D Lafree
Biographic Data
| ID | 85520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary D Lafree |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafree |
| SIGNATURE | LAFREE G D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
Rape and criminal justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
Jurors' Responses to Victims' Behavior and Legal Issues in Sexual Assault Trials
Feminists argue that rape laws and their application are explained by social rules requiring women to conform to conservative sex-role norms and defining them as the sexual property of men. We operationalized and tested some of these arguments with data on 360 jurors who served in rape trials. Courtroom observations led us to distinguish trials in which the major issue was whether a sexual assault occurred (consent or “no sex” cases) from trials …
Adversarial and Nonadversarial Justice: A Comparison of Guilty Pleas and Trials
Despite the frequency of guilty pleas, researchers disagree about the ability of plea bargaining to provide justice. Critics argue that plea bargaining deprives defendants of due process rights and procedural safeguards Proponents argue that guilty pleas save resources for cases that require trial and allow officials flexibility to tailor justice to individual defendants. This article explores these issues by examining the effect of defendant and…
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Vol. 1
Male Power and Female Victimization: Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape
Previous research in criminology assumes that rape is primarily an intraracial phenomenon. But empirical studies since the late 1950s have shown substantially higher rates of black offender-white victim (BW) than white offender-black victim rape. The present study tested two models of BW rape on a set of 443 rape victimizations collected by the National Crime Panel from 1973 to 1977. The normative model interprets BW rape as a correlate of increa…
Official Reactions to Social Problems: Police Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases
Responsibility for arrest and charging makes police influential agents in the offical processing of sexual-assault cases. Recent research offers three competing models of police decisions: the legal model suggests that police do not discriminate between victims on the basis of extralegal attributes; the extralegal model suggests that police do discriminate; and the change model suggests that reliance on extralegal determinants declines with growi…
The Effect of Sexual Stratification By Race on Official Reactions to Rape
Collins argues that sexual access, like other valuable commodities, is distributed according to relative power within a sexual stratification system. He predicts more serious official reactions to violations of the sexual stratification system in which men from less powerful groups sexually assault women from more powerful groups. Race continues to be an obvious correlate of stratified sexual access in America. But empirical studies have not asse…
The Other Side of Rape
The Effect of Sexual Stratification By Race on Official Reactions to Rape
Collins argues that sexual access, like other valuable commodities, is distributed according to relative power within a sexual stratification system. He predicts more serious official reactions to violations of the sexual stratification system in which men from less powerful groups sexually assault women from more powerful groups. Race continues to be an obvious correlate of stratified sexual access in America. But empirical studies have not asse…
Adversarial and Nonadversarial Justice: A Comparison of Guilty Pleas and Trials
Despite the frequency of guilty pleas, researchers disagree about the ability of plea bargaining to provide justice. Critics argue that plea bargaining deprives defendants of due process rights and procedural safeguards Proponents argue that guilty pleas save resources for cases that require trial and allow officials flexibility to tailor justice to individual defendants. This article explores these issues by examining the effect of defendant and…
Official Reactions to Social Problems: Police Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases
Responsibility for arrest and charging makes police influential agents in the offical processing of sexual-assault cases. Recent research offers three competing models of police decisions: the legal model suggests that police do not discriminate between victims on the basis of extralegal attributes; the extralegal model suggests that police do discriminate; and the change model suggests that reliance on extralegal determinants declines with growi…
Jurors' Responses to Victims' Behavior and Legal Issues in Sexual Assault Trials
Feminists argue that rape laws and their application are explained by social rules requiring women to conform to conservative sex-role norms and defining them as the sexual property of men. We operationalized and tested some of these arguments with data on 360 jurors who served in rape trials. Courtroom observations led us to distinguish trials in which the major issue was whether a sexual assault occurred (consent or “no sex” cases) from trials …
Male Power and Female Victimization: Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape
Previous research in criminology assumes that rape is primarily an intraracial phenomenon. But empirical studies since the late 1950s have shown substantially higher rates of black offender-white victim (BW) than white offender-black victim rape. The present study tested two models of BW rape on a set of 443 rape victimizations collected by the National Crime Panel from 1973 to 1977. The normative model interprets BW rape as a correlate of increa…
The Effect of Sexual Stratification By Race on Official Reactions to Rape
Collins argues that sexual access, like other valuable commodities, is distributed according to relative power within a sexual stratification system. He predicts more serious official reactions to violations of the sexual stratification system in which men from less powerful groups sexually assault women from more powerful groups. Race continues to be an obvious correlate of stratified sexual access in America. But empirical studies have not asse…
The Other Side of Rape
Official Reactions to Social Problems: Police Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases
Responsibility for arrest and charging makes police influential agents in the offical processing of sexual-assault cases. Recent research offers three competing models of police decisions: the legal model suggests that police do not discriminate between victims on the basis of extralegal attributes; the extralegal model suggests that police do discriminate; and the change model suggests that reliance on extralegal determinants declines with growi…
Male Power and Female Victimization: Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape
Previous research in criminology assumes that rape is primarily an intraracial phenomenon. But empirical studies since the late 1950s have shown substantially higher rates of black offender-white victim (BW) than white offender-black victim rape. The present study tested two models of BW rape on a set of 443 rape victimizations collected by the National Crime Panel from 1973 to 1977. The normative model interprets BW rape as a correlate of increa…
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Vol. 1
Jurors' Responses to Victims' Behavior and Legal Issues in Sexual Assault Trials
Feminists argue that rape laws and their application are explained by social rules requiring women to conform to conservative sex-role norms and defining them as the sexual property of men. We operationalized and tested some of these arguments with data on 360 jurors who served in rape trials. Courtroom observations led us to distinguish trials in which the major issue was whether a sexual assault occurred (consent or “no sex” cases) from trials …
Adversarial and Nonadversarial Justice: A Comparison of Guilty Pleas and Trials
Despite the frequency of guilty pleas, researchers disagree about the ability of plea bargaining to provide justice. Critics argue that plea bargaining deprives defendants of due process rights and procedural safeguards Proponents argue that guilty pleas save resources for cases that require trial and allow officials flexibility to tailor justice to individual defendants. This article explores these issues by examining the effect of defendant and…
Rape and criminal justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
Criminology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Jury Decision Making Processes (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)