Penner Erika K, Shaffer Catherine S, Viljoen Jodi L
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada.
BC Children's Hospital, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3V4, Canada.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2017 Oct;27(4):354-370. doi: 10.1002/cbm.2004. Epub 2016 Jun 13.
Theories of procedural justice suggest that individuals who experience the criminal justice system as fair are more likely to perceive it as legitimate and, in turn, are less likely to reoffend. However, when individuals come into contact with the legal system, they are not blank slates - they have beliefs and personality characteristics that may systematically influence such perceptions.
Our aim was to establish the extent to which demographic characteristics, legal history and clinical features, including personality characteristics, systematically influenced the degree to which young people experience the justice system as fair and legitimate.
Self-report, file and interview data were collected from ninety-two 12 to 17-year-olds on probation in Western Canada.
Substance use and traumatic experiences were inversely correlated with perceptions of procedural justice and legal legitimacy. Young people with higher scores on interpersonal, lifestyle and antisocial facets of the psychopathy checklist: youth version believed less strongly in the legitimacy of the law, but regression analyses confirmed that only history of trauma was independently associated with perceived procedural justice and legitimacy. Those in the youngest age group were more likely to have positive perceptions of justice than older youths, but demographics and legal history otherwise did not relate to outcomes.
Our findings suggest that examining the relationship between procedural justice, legitimacy and offending without taking intra-individual variables into account may neglect important influences on those relationships. Other research has begun to show that young people who do not accept the law as legitimate or the criminal justice system as fair are more likely to offend. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
程序正义理论表明，那些认为刑事司法系统公平的人更有可能认为其具有合法性，进而再次犯罪的可能性较小。然而，当人们接触法律系统时，他们并非白纸一张——他们的信念和个性特征可能会系统性地影响这些认知。
我们的目的是确定人口统计学特征、法律史以及包括个性特征在内的临床特征在多大程度上系统性地影响年轻人对司法系统公平性和合法性的体验程度。
从加拿大西部92名处于缓刑期的12至17岁青少年那里收集了自我报告、档案和访谈数据。
物质使用和创伤经历与程序正义和法律合法性的认知呈负相关。在精神病态检查表青少年版的人际、生活方式和反社会方面得分较高的年轻人对法律合法性的信念较弱，但回归分析证实，只有创伤史与感知到的程序正义和合法性独立相关。最年轻年龄组的人比年龄较大的青少年更有可能对正义有积极的认知，但人口统计学和法律史在其他方面与结果无关。
我们的研究结果表明，在不考虑个体内部变量的情况下研究程序正义、合法性与犯罪之间的关系可能会忽视对这些关系的重要影响。其他研究已开始表明，那些不认为法律具有合法性或刑事司法系统公平的年轻人更有可能犯罪。版权所有© 2016约翰·威利父子有限公司。
