Salazar Laura F, Baker Charlene K, Price Ann W, Carlin Kathleen
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Georgia, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2003 Dec;32(3-4):253-64. doi: 10.1023/b:ajcp.0000004746.31861.e7.
To be effective, criminal justice policies should affect the underlying social norms for which the policies were enacted. This study sought to determine whether public perceptions of criminal justice policies on domestic violence affected social norms. Two waves of data were collected via a telephone survey where a random probability sample of 973 residents was drawn from 4 communities. A structural equation model was tested and confirmed. Results provided strong support for the hypothesis that perceptions of criminal justice policies have direct effects on attitudes toward criminal justice response, and indirect effects on victim-blaming attitudes, both underlying social norms related to domestic violence. The enactment of criminal justice policies, therefore, may have an impact beyond victims and perpetrators and lead to a transformation of the community through the emergence of new social norms. Public awareness campaigns designed to disseminate criminal justice policies may be instrumental in provoking social change.
为了有效发挥作用，刑事司法政策应影响其制定所依据的潜在社会规范。本研究旨在确定公众对家庭暴力刑事司法政策的看法是否会影响社会规范。通过电话调查收集了两波数据，从4个社区中随机抽取了973名居民作为概率样本。对一个结构方程模型进行了检验并得到证实。结果为以下假设提供了有力支持：对刑事司法政策的看法对刑事司法应对态度有直接影响，对指责受害者态度有间接影响，这两种态度都是与家庭暴力相关的潜在社会规范。因此，刑事司法政策的制定可能产生超出受害者和犯罪者的影响，并通过新社会规范的出现导致社区的转变。旨在传播刑事司法政策的公众宣传活动可能有助于引发社会变革。
