Attribution of Responsibility: Sex-Based Bias in Press Reports on Crime

摘要: The growing body of research on the subject women and media has only recently begun to consider treatment female criminality. present study examines `chivalry hypothesis' as related portrayals data were obtained from a systematic content analysis 724 press reports crimes which appeared in Israel's leading dailies. attribution-of-responsibility statements these classified by type offence, offender's sex other variables. A multivariate analysis, applying log-linear procedure, reveals effect interaction between crime tendency offender `pawn' or an `origin' criminal. In spite overall treat criminality consequence social psychological factors (i.e. `pawn'), attribution responsibility varies significantly across categories crime, suggesting that sex-based bias ...