RT Article
T1 Convicting the Innocent or Freeing the Guilty? Public Attitudes Toward Criminal Justice Errors
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 65
IS 4
SP 458
OP 479
A1 Zhuo, Yue
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750540673
AB Two types of judicial errors—convicting an innocent person or acquitting a guilty person—challenge the integrity and legitimacy of criminal justice. How citizens view these errors plays an important role in criminal justice policy. Utilizing data from a national survey, this study applies the established Western theories to explore the correlates of public attitudes regarding the relative acceptance of wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals in contemporary China. The findings lend support to both constructionist/conflict and symbolic theories.
K1 Conflict
K1 criminal justice errors
K1 instrumental
K1 Public attitudes
K1 symbolic
K1 China
DO 10.1177/0306624X20944684