Griffith University - Mount Gravatt Campus, QLD, Australia.
Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2023 Jun;67(8):783-802. doi: 10.1177/0306624X211066826. Epub 2021 Dec 29.
The fallible nature of the criminal justice system continues to see judicial errors-that is, wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals-undermine its integrity, efficacy, and legitimacy. Public perceptions of judicial errors are important contributors to criminal justice policy and reforms. The current study utilizes the 2016 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) dataset to examine public attitudes toward judicial errors. It applies Herbert Packer's crime control and due process models to understand how concerns around procedural safeguards and public safety are associated with public perceptions toward judicial errors. Packer's model has been challenged by studies, which theorize that the models are not mutually exclusive. Yet, they have not been empirically tested in this context, which is a gap this study seeks to fill. Findings show that due process crime control concerns shape public attitudes toward wrongful convictions and challenge the notion that Packer's models be applied on a continuum.
刑事司法系统的易错性使得司法错误（即错误定罪和错误无罪释放）继续破坏其完整性、效力和合法性。公众对司法错误的看法是刑事司法政策和改革的重要推动因素。本研究利用 2016 年澳大利亚社会态度调查（AuSSA）数据集来研究公众对司法错误的态度。它应用赫伯特·帕克（Herbert Packer）的犯罪控制和正当程序模型来理解程序保障和公共安全方面的担忧与公众对司法错误的看法之间的关联。帕克的模型受到了一些研究的挑战，这些研究认为这些模型并非互斥。然而，在这种情况下，它们尚未经过实证检验，这是本研究试图填补的空白。研究结果表明，正当程序和犯罪控制方面的担忧影响了公众对错误定罪的态度，这对帕克模型应该在一个连续体上适用的观点提出了挑战。
