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Criminal Punishment for Just Society: The Interaction of Just World Belief and Hope

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2011, v.25 no.2, pp.113-125
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2011.25.2.006


& (2011). Criminal Punishment for Just Society: The Interaction of Just World Belief and Hope. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 25(2), 113-125, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2011.25.2.006

Abstract

The present study investigated how jurors' just world belief and just world hope, and defendant's socioeconomic status influence criminal punishment. 106 participants completed the just world belief(Rubin & Peplau, 1975) and the 'just world hope' scales and then made punishment decisions on a case scenario that described a bodily injury resulting in death. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis first revealed a significant main effect of just world hope. Specifically, people who were holding higher hope to achieve a just world in future were significantly more likely to assign harsher sentence to the defendant regardless of his/her socioeconomic status. However, there was no significant main effect of just world belief and defendant's socioeconomic status. More interestingly and of importance, a significant interaction between just world belief and just world hope was found. That is, even though participants with high just world belief did not differ on punishment regardless of just world hope, those who believe the current society unjust were more likely to sentence the defendant to harsher punishment when they were holding high(vs. low) just world hope. Psychological and legal implications of the findings were discussed and also the essentials of criminal punishment were suggested for the just world.

keywords
형사처벌, 공정세상 믿음, 공정세상 기대, 범죄의 전형성, 범죄자의 사회경제적 지위, criminal punishment, just world belief, just world hope, crime typicality, socioeconomic status

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