Peranan Etnik Dan daya Tarik Wajah Terdakwa Terhadap Putusan Hukuman A Study on the Role of Defendant's Ethnicity and Defendant's Attractiveness in Judicial Sentences.

Lately judicial sentences in criminal cases have drawn sharp public attention, because of assumed great disparities. There exists interaction between the defendant, the witnesses, the judges, the prosecutor, the lawyers and the public in court. This study is intended to discover whether there is a r...

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Main Author: Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib
Format: Article NonPeerReviewed
Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 1996
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Online Access:https://repository.ugm.ac.id/22882/
http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=5808
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Summary:Lately judicial sentences in criminal cases have drawn sharp public attention, because of assumed great disparities. There exists interaction between the defendant, the witnesses, the judges, the prosecutor, the lawyers and the public in court. This study is intended to discover whether there is a relation among the attractiveness of defendant, his ethnicity, and the. judge's sentence.Subjects of this experiment were 44 male law students of Gadjah Mada University. They were assigned randomly to one of four conditions based on 2X2 factorial design. The first independent variable was ethnicity (Chinese versus Indonesian) and the second independent variable was attractiveness (attractive versus unattractive). The data was analysed with a two way anova.Results of the study showed: (1) There was no difference between the judicial sentences in cases of defendants with (fictive) attractive faces and those with (fictive) unattractive faces, (2) There was no difference in the judicial sentences (fictive) Chinesse defendants and those of (fictive) Indonesian ones. Key words: defendant's ethnicity and defendant's attractiveness � judicial sentences