@article{ref1,
title="Effects of defendant age on severity of punishment for different crimes",
journal="Journal of social psychology",
year="2004",
author="Bergeron, Christine E. and McKelvie, Stuart J.",
volume="144",
number="1",
pages="75-90",
abstract="After reading a murder or theft vignette in which the perpetrator was a 20-, 40-, or 60-year-old man, 95 undergraduates gave sentence and parole recommendations. Punishment was harsher for the murder than for the theft. For murder, participants treated the 20- and 60-year-old men less harshly than the 40-year-old man, which confirms previous archival findings. However, this inverted U-shaped function occurred for murder only. The authors discussed the results in the context of the just-desert and utilitarian rationales that guide sentencing and gave suggestions for future research.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4545",
doi="10.3200/SOCP.144.1.75-90",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/SOCP.144.1.75-90"
}