Study of the understanding and support by people of the Saiban-in System in terms of deliberative palls

同时做了两件事。首先，为了寻找适用于当前研究的材料和方法，我第一年参加了在韩国举行的2011年东亚法律与社会会议。在第二年和第三年，我邀请美国学者到日本讨论他们的研究。第二，参与者必须是普通公众，所以它是基于互联网的。由于时间限制，不可能增加法官的作用。自变量是：1)大或小的讨论小组(大约12或6名男性和女性)，以及2)案件A或B(为实验目的而修改的实际试验材料)，他们决定。因变量是被告有罪或无罪的集体决定，他们的个人决定，等等。参与者勉强超过100人，更多的人是可取的。然而，似乎有了重要的发现，尽管我们没有得到像我们想要的那么多具有统计学意义的结果。

Two things have been done simultaneously. One, to search materials and methods that were applicable to current research, I attended East Asian Law and Society Conference 2011 in Korea for the first year. For the second and third years, I invited American scholars to Japan to discuss their research. Two, it was imperative that participants must be general public, so it was Internet based. Because of time limitation, it was not possible to add the role of judges. Independent variables were: 1) the large or small discussion group (about 12 or 6 men and women), and 2) Case A or B (actual trial materials modified for experimental purposes), which they decided. Dependent variables were the group decision that the defendant was guilty or not guilty, their individual decisions, and the like. Participants barely exceeded 100, and the more were desirable. However, it seems that there were important findings, although we did not have as many statistically significant results as we wanted.