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Tiêu đề

Release of the guilty to protect the innocent

Tác giả

Sommer R.; Sommer B.A.; Heidmets M.

Năm xuất bản

1991

Source title

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1177/0093854891018004008

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84973702928&doi=10.1177%2f0093854891018004008&partnerID=40&md5=8d506db468ccc4f885d21d7932882f8d

Tóm tắt

To test Blackstone's assertion that it is better that 10 guilty escape than 1 innocent person suffer, students in California (USA) and Estonia (part of the USSR at the time of the study) were questioned as to the number of guilty offenders whom they would allow to escape unpunished in order to keep one innocent person from going to jail. In both nations, the number of guilty to be released varied positively with sentence length for the innocent person. The rank order for seriousness of crimes appears to be different in the United States than in the Soviet Union. American law students showed more desire than American liberal arts students to protect the innocent. © 1991, SAGE PUBLICATIONS. All rights reserved.

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