Newspaper juries |
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| Authors: | Henk Elffers Jan W de Keijser Peter J van Koppen Laurien van Haeringen |
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| Institution: | (1) Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), P.O. Box 792, 2300 AT Leiden, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Law, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium;(3) Department of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands;(4) Department of Law, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(5) Dutch Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary (SSR), Zutphen, The Netherlands;; |
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| Abstract: | This article reports on a field experiment on the effect of media information on people’s attitudes towards the justice system.
For the duration of a year a Dutch local newspaper took small groups of readers, called ‘newspaper jurors’, to court sessions
of criminal cases and subsequently reported on their experiences and perceptions. Using a quasi-experimental design, we examined
whether an attitude change in the general reader population of this particular local newspaper occurred as a result of the
jury’s newspaper reports. Findings show that, after the treatment interval of 1 year, no attitude change in the general reader
population could be identified that was absent in the control group. |
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