公民监督是否会影响警察的合法性?
Kaylyn Jackson Schiff1, Daniel S Schiff1, Bryant J Moy2
1Department of Political Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
PNAS nexus
|September 5, 2025
概括
公民审查委员会旨在通过监督来加强警察的合法性. 然而,这项研究发现,CRB通常不会增加公众的信任,甚至会在与警察局长发生冲突时降低信任.
科学领域:
- 犯罪学和刑事司法
- 公共管理
- 法律社会学
背景情况:
- 公民审查委员会作为外部监督机制来提高警察的合法性.
- 尽管受到公众的支持,但CRB在提高程序公平性和合法性方面的有效性仍受到争议.
- 有限的采用和影响引发了关于CRB在警察问责制中的作用的问题.
研究的目的:
- 评估民间审查委员会对公众对警察合法性的影响.
- 检查CRB的决定如何影响公众的信任.
- 调查CRB在形成程序公平性认知中的作用.
主要方法:
- 进行了一项涉及2503名受访者的调查实验.
- 参与者被介绍了涉及警察局长和CRB的情景,
- 这项研究分析了与警察局长一致或冲突的CRB决定如何影响合法性.
主要成果:
- 一般来说,民间审查委员会并没有提高公众对警察合法性的看法.
- 对于以前对警察有负面看法的人来说,CRB可以改善程序公平性的看法.
- 两者之间的冲突使公众对两家机构的信任下降,
结论:
- 这些发现挑战了CRB本身增强警方合法性的假设.
- 监督委员会和警察领导层之间存在的制度分歧可能会破坏公众的信任.
- 特别是在有争议的案件中,
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