School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2023 Oct 11;18(10):e0291922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291922. eCollection 2023.
Research has found that physical attractiveness is related to a host of benefits across life outcomes. Within the field of criminal justice, physical attractiveness appears to afford individuals leniency at various decision points. This research, however, often fails to include measures of personal presentation beyond simply measuring physical attractiveness. The current study extends this line of research by investigating how physical attractiveness, personality attractiveness, and grooming are related to criminal justice processing decisions. Results from negative binomial and logistic regression analyses indicate that when assessed alone, physical attractiveness significantly decreased the odds of criminal behavior by 18 percent, arrest by 11 percent, conviction by 14 percent, and incarceration by 28 percent-controlling for race, age, and gender. When controlling for personality and grooming, however, physical attractiveness results in a 47 to 53 percent increase in the risk of experiencing these outcomes while having an attractive personality and being well-groomed significantly reduced such risk. These results highlight the importance of considering other factors of appearance and personal presentation when considering how attractiveness influences criminal justice outcomes.
研究发现，外貌吸引力与生活成果的诸多益处有关。在刑事司法领域，外貌吸引力似乎在各种决策点为个人提供了宽大处理。然而，这项研究往往未能包括除了简单衡量外貌吸引力之外的个人形象衡量标准。本研究通过调查外貌吸引力、人格吸引力和修饰与刑事司法处理决策的关系，扩展了这一研究领域。负二项式和逻辑回归分析的结果表明，当单独评估时，外貌吸引力使犯罪行为的几率降低了 18%，被捕的几率降低了 11%，定罪的几率降低了 14%，监禁的几率降低了 28%——控制了种族、年龄和性别。然而，当控制人格和修饰时，外貌吸引力会使经历这些结果的风险增加 47%至 53%，而具有吸引力的人格和良好的修饰则显著降低了这种风险。这些结果强调了在考虑吸引力如何影响刑事司法结果时，考虑其他外貌和个人形象因素的重要性。
