Criminal Justice System in Europe
Perception of the Criminal Justice System: the Impact of Public Knowledge and Emotion
Ilona Cesniene, from the Vilnius University, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime and Society,” under the title “Perception of the Criminal Justice System: the Impact of Public Knowledge and Emotion”. Here is the abstract: The criminal justice system is centrally concerned with securing public order by the exercise of power, however, a system that does not command public trust will fail to establish the requisite legitimacy and authority to fulfil this role (Hough, 2004). Low levels of public confidence leads to dissatisfaction with the system and to root in a striving for justice. Moreover, people express their concern for justice differently. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between public attitudes toward the criminal justice system and positive as well as negative emotional responses to it. The sample consisted of 1005 randomly selected adults. Results revealed that emotions of the same valence can have effects for how issues of criminal justice are considered. Conceptual and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
The Reception of Criminal Justice in Society: the Role of Mass Media
Margarira Dobrynina, from the Vilnius University, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime and Society,” under the title “The Reception of Criminal Justice in Society: the Role of Mass Media”. Here is the abstract: In the contemporary world by transmitting symbolic content mass media mediates the normative constructs of the world, thus legitimizing the status quo or reflecting the “accepted” changes taking place in the social organization of the society and the power distribution field. As the main source of information about crime and criminal justice, mass media significantly influences public knowledge, and thus, reception of the reality of crime. Through the disposition of “synoptic” power, it contributes to the shaping and framing of its content, which is influenced by the normative contours of the society, as well as the commercial media industry operating under the logic of the free market economy. Thus, in order to understand the reception of crime and criminal justice in a society it is vital to analyze the origins of the crime knowledge and reveal its construction models and structure. In the framework of the research project “Reception of Criminal Justice in Society” administrated by the Research Council of Lithuania the interdisciplinary team of researchers from Vilnius University analyzes different types of social knowledge on criminal justice and the way it is reproduced in Lithuanian society.
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- “The Reception of Criminal Justice in Society: the Role of Mass Media”, by Margarira Dobrynina (Proceedings)
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See Also
Further Reading
- “Perception of the Criminal Justice System: the Impact of Public Knowledge and Emotion”, by Ilona Cesniene (Proceedings)