TY - JOUR
AU - Robinson, Robert J.
AB - A questionnaire study about bargaining tactics was conducted among 163 public defenders (PDs) and district attorneys (DAs) in the criminal justice system. The authors hypothesized that PDs (defensive roles) would perceive questionable tactics to be more appropriate than would DAs (offensive roles), that PDs and DAs would elevate their approval of questionable tactics for counteraggression purposes, and that PDs would elevate their approval for counteraggression to a greater extent than would DAs. Results supported these hypotheses. The authors also examined the basis of the status quo bias, because previous status quo bias studies always confounded power with defensive role. After testing four status quo bias hypotheses, results suggested that, contrary to previous explanations, a defender-challenger framework sometimes provides a better account of the status quo bias than does a power framework.
TI - Morally Questionable Tactics: Negotiations between District Attorneys and Public Defenders
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
DO - 10.1177/0146167201276008
DA - 2001-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/morally-questionable-tactics-negotiations-between-district-attorneys-MnylL4c4ZG
SP - 731
EP - 743
VL - 27
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -