PLEADING INNOCENTS: LABORATORY EVIDENCE OF PLEA BARGAINING'S INNOCENCE PROBLEM

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作者：
Edkins, Vanessa A. [1 ]
Dervan, Lucian E. [2 ]
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[1] Florida Inst Technol, Forens Psychol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[2] Southern Illinois Univ, Sch Law, Law, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
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CURRENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 2013年 / 21卷
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
We investigated plea bargaining by making students actually guilty or innocent of a cheating offense and varying the sentence that they would face if found 'guilty' by a review board. As hypothesized, guilty students were more likely than innocent students to accept a plea deal (i.e., admit guilt and lose credit; akin to accepting a sentence of probation) (Chi-square= 8.63, p<. 01) but we did not find an effect of sentence severity. Innocent students, though not as likely to plead as guilty students, showed an overall preference (56% across conditions) for accepting a plea deal. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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