Tanasichuk and Wormith’s (2012) study explores attitudes towards the Criminal Justice system. The authors incentive of the study was to identify what is the cause of attitudes towards the criminal justice system. As well as, how we can incline those attitudes in the direction of a more confident perspective of the criminal justice system.
The study used a sample of 140 students from an introductory to psychology course from a Canadian university. Of the participants, 82 were female, 54 were male and 4 preferred not to indicate their gender. Participants were then asked to complete a series of tests that would examine their knowledge of crime trends, their attitudes towards law, courts and police, their confidence in the criminal justice system and lastly their satisfaction with the criminal justice system in general. Following the series of tests, participants were then randomly …show more content…
They also found that of the participants who received active or passive modes of delivery of criminal justice system package showed that there were no compelling scores over one another. Moreover, participants who had the criminal justice information had positive attitudes towards laws, police and courts. One of Tanasichuk and Wormith’s (2013) findings showed that there was some significance to participants who obtained the criminal justice information had far more confidence in the criminal justice system than the participants who had the health information package. The authors believed there was a partial significance to the passive criminal justice information condition since participants in the condition did not score significantly higher than the other two conditions of the control group. As can be seen from the results, if people receive the right information it is possible to change attitudes towards the criminal justice
The study used a sample of 140 students from an introductory to psychology course from a Canadian university. Of the participants, 82 were female, 54 were male and 4 preferred not to indicate their gender. Participants were then asked to complete a series of tests that would examine their knowledge of crime trends, their attitudes towards law, courts and police, their confidence in the criminal justice system and lastly their satisfaction with the criminal justice system in general. Following the series of tests, participants were then randomly …show more content…
They also found that of the participants who received active or passive modes of delivery of criminal justice system package showed that there were no compelling scores over one another. Moreover, participants who had the criminal justice information had positive attitudes towards laws, police and courts. One of Tanasichuk and Wormith’s (2013) findings showed that there was some significance to participants who obtained the criminal justice information had far more confidence in the criminal justice system than the participants who had the health information package. The authors believed there was a partial significance to the passive criminal justice information condition since participants in the condition did not score significantly higher than the other two conditions of the control group. As can be seen from the results, if people receive the right information it is possible to change attitudes towards the criminal justice