Sex disparities in the incidence-arrest statistics for juvenile thieves may stem from preconceived stereotypes impacting bystanders' social-cognitive processing of a bicycle theft. After reading vignettes describing a bicycle theft, bystanders' reliance on male-as-juvenile-thief stereotypes enhanced their recall of crime and appearance features for the male thief and in their interpretation of his intimidation of a child victim. Bystander sex also affected the results by enhancing appearance recall for the same sex thief. Women interpreted the intentions of the adolescent thieves as stealing, whereas men interpreted the intentions as borrowing. Bystanders endorsed the decision for the father to bring the stolen bicycle to the attention of the police, especially when the victim was a girl, and agreed the police should be involved. The bystanders would be credible witnesses as they could provide the actus reus and mens rea to support a case of larceny-theft and describe the thief.

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盗窃刻板印象对男性和女性少年小偷的旁观者回忆、解释和惩罚的影响

少年小偷的发生率逮捕统计中的性别差异可能源于影响旁观者对自行车盗窃的社会认知处理的先入为主的刻板印象。在阅读了描述自行车盗窃的小插曲后，旁观者对男性作为少年小偷的刻板印象的依赖增强了他们对男性小偷的犯罪和外表特征的回忆，以及他们对他恐吓儿童受害者的解释。旁观者的性行为也通过增强同性窃贼的外表回忆来影响结果。女性将青少年小偷的意图解释为偷窃，而男性将其意图解释为借用。旁观者支持父亲将被盗自行车提请警方注意的决定，特别是当受害者是女孩时，并同意警方应该介入。