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

如果澳大利亚的司法系统得到公民的信任，澳大利亚将得到更好的保护，免受恐怖主义和犯罪的侵害。目前没有。没有这种信任，司法既不能提供可信的威慑，也不能保护权利。法院的设计和运作通常采用等级权威模式，而新的治疗性和恢复性方法使司法程序更加民主。 几乎没有证据表明这些因素对参与者的公正性有何影响。了解人们在一个关键的裁决过程中建立信任的过程，陪审团审判，将使陪审团和司法程序中其他形式的非专业决策在司法系统中得到更有效的利用。

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.