Newspaper juries: A field experiment concerning effect of information on attitudes toward the criminal justice system.

摘要: This article reports on a field experiment the effect of media information people's attitudes towards justice system. For duration year Dutch local newspaper took small groups readers, called 'newspaper jurors', to court sessions criminal cases and subsequently reported their experiences perceptions. Using quasi-experimental design, we examined whether an attitude change in general reader population this particular occurred as result jury's reports. Findings show that, after treatment interval 1 year, no could be identified that was absent control group. © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007.