Juror confidence in justice: democratic participation or deference to authority?

陪审员对正义的信心：民主参与还是尊重权威？

• 批准号: DP0988404
• 负责人: Prof David Tait
• 金额: $ 16.97万
• 依托单位: Western Sydney University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2014-04-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0988404
• 关键词: Juror; confidence; justice; democratic; participation

Australia will be better protected from terrorism and crime if its justice system has the confidence of its citizens. Currently it does not. Without such confidence, justice offers neither a credible deterrent nor a protector of rights. Courts are typically designed and run using a hierarchical model of authority, while new therapeutic and restorative approaches make justice processes more democratic. There is little evidence of how either of these impacts on justice for participants. Understanding the process by which people develop trust during one critical adjudicative process, the jury trial, will allow juries, and other forms of lay decision-making in judicial processes, to be used more effectively in the justice system.

如果澳大利亚的司法系统得到公民的信任，它将更好地保护自己免受恐怖主义和犯罪的侵害。目前，它没有。如果没有这种信心，司法既不能起到可信的威慑作用，也不能保护权利。法院的设计和运行通常采用权力的等级模式，而新的治疗和恢复性方法使司法程序更加民主。几乎没有证据表明，这两种做法对参与者的正义有何影响。了解人们在一个关键的裁决过程--陪审团审判--期间建立信任的过程，将使陪审团和司法程序中其他形式的非专业决策能够更有效地在司法系统中使用。