Department of Psychology.
Law Hum Behav. 2019 Dec;43(6):568-584. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000338. Epub 2019 Aug 5.
Crime control theater refers to intuitively appealing laws that appear to address crime while lacking any evidence that they actually do so (e.g., sex offender registration and residence restriction laws, which do not reduce recidivism). Despite their ineffectiveness, public support for such laws tends to be high.
We predicted that making people aware of these laws' failure to reduce crime would lower support for them.
Participants (recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk; Study 1: = 298, mean age = 35.60, 47.7% self-identified as women and 75.8% as White; Study 2: = 147, mean age = 35.03, 40.1% self-identified as women and 85.0% as White; Study 3: = 552, mean age = 35.86, 42.9% self-identified as women and 76.4% as White) read about sex offender registration and residence restriction policies and rated their support for these laws, confidence in their opinions about them, and perceptions of their efficacy before and after reading counterevidence highlighting these laws' failure to reduce sex crimes.
Although exposure to counterevidence somewhat lowered support (average within-subjects = -0.69), general attitudes remained positive even at the postcounterevidence phase (average = 0.46 against the scale midpoint). This pattern held when manipulating the criminal population being targeted (sex offenders vs. white-collar offenders; Study 1), when tailoring counterevidence to people's self-stated justifications for supporting these laws (Studies 2-3), and despite favorable ratings of the counterevidence's strength and credibility.
Support for crime control theater policies persists despite explicit knowledge that they do not reduce crime, highlighting the need for alternative methods of dissuading people from their support for these ineffective laws. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
犯罪控制剧场是指那些直观上看似能够解决犯罪问题，但实际上却缺乏任何证据支持的法律（例如，性犯罪者登记和居住限制法，并不能减少累犯）。尽管这些法律没有效果，但公众对这些法律的支持往往很高。
我们预测，让人们意识到这些法律未能减少犯罪会降低对它们的支持。
参与者（从亚马逊 Mechanical Turk 招募；研究 1：=298，平均年龄=35.60，47.7%自我认同为女性，75.8%为白人；研究 2：=147，平均年龄=35.03，40.1%自我认同为女性，85.0%为白人；研究 3：=552，平均年龄=35.86，42.9%自我认同为女性，76.4%为白人）阅读了性犯罪者登记和居住限制政策，并对这些法律的支持程度、对这些法律的看法的信心以及对这些法律有效性的看法进行了评价，然后阅读了强调这些法律未能减少性犯罪的反证据。
尽管反证据的出现使支持率略有下降（平均内被试= -0.69），但即使在反证据阶段后，总体态度仍然是积极的（平均=0.46，与量表中点相对）。当操纵目标犯罪人群（性犯罪者与白领罪犯；研究 1）时，当将反证据与人们支持这些法律的自我陈述理由相匹配时（研究 2-3），以及尽管反证据的强度和可信度评价较高时，这种模式仍然存在。
尽管明确知道这些法律不能减少犯罪，但对犯罪控制剧场政策的支持仍然存在，这突显了需要采取替代方法来劝阻人们不要支持这些无效的法律。（APA ，保留所有权利）。
