TY - JOUR
T1 - Trust in the jury system
T2 - a comparison of Australian and U.S. samples
AU - Miller, Monica K.
AU - Pfeifer, Jeffrey
AU - Bornstein, Brian H.
AU - Kaplan, Tatyana
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant Award and the College of Liberal Arts/Reynolds School of Journalism travel grant (University of Nevada, Reno). The authors would like to thank Teagan Connop-Galer for her assistance with data collection. They would also like to thank Sarah Trescher for her help with the data analysis and write-up of this article but declined authorship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Public trust in the criminal justice system, including the jury system, is important for maintaining a democracy that is fair for all citizens. However, there is little research on trust in the jury system generally and even less cross-country comparison research specifically. Trust in the jury system might relate to other legal attitude measures (e.g., authoritarianism). This study identified the degree to which trust in the jury system relates to legal attitudes and compared perceptions of trust between the U.S. and Australia. Community members completed a survey that included measures of trust in the jury system and legal attitudes. The U.S. sample had higher levels of trust in juries than the Australian sample. In both samples, just world beliefs and legal authoritarianism were positively related to trust. Results have both theoretical and practical implications regarding legal attitudes, trust in the jury system, and public opinions of juries in each country.
AB - Public trust in the criminal justice system, including the jury system, is important for maintaining a democracy that is fair for all citizens. However, there is little research on trust in the jury system generally and even less cross-country comparison research specifically. Trust in the jury system might relate to other legal attitude measures (e.g., authoritarianism). This study identified the degree to which trust in the jury system relates to legal attitudes and compared perceptions of trust between the U.S. and Australia. Community members completed a survey that included measures of trust in the jury system and legal attitudes. The U.S. sample had higher levels of trust in juries than the Australian sample. In both samples, just world beliefs and legal authoritarianism were positively related to trust. Results have both theoretical and practical implications regarding legal attitudes, trust in the jury system, and public opinions of juries in each country.
KW - Attributions of crime
KW - cross-national jury comparisons
KW - fairness
KW - institutional trust
KW - just world beliefs
KW - legal attitudes
KW - legal authoritarianism
KW - trust in jury system
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U2 - 10.1080/13218719.2020.1862002
DO - 10.1080/13218719.2020.1862002
M3 - Article
C2 - 35694644
AN - SCOPUS:85100095159
JO - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
JF - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
SN - 1321-8719
ER -