Factors affecting to the confidence of the people in the criminal justice

Abstract

The objective of this research were 1) to study and synthesize ideas concerning factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process and 2) to study the factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process. The researcher used the mix method research and the procedure comprised 1) to study and synthesize ideas concerning factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process. The sources of information and the informants were documents and related research papers which concern the factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process during the year 2001-2011 and the survey on 800 samples from the different provincial parts. The tools for this research were the record and synthesizing form and questionnaire on the factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process. The qualitative data was verified by qualitative synthesis using content analysis and quantitative data was analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation and path analysis.

The results of the study were as follows; 1. THe results of the study and synthesize ideas concerning factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal justice Process found that the factors that affect the public confidence toward the Criminnal Justice Process are 1) Situational factors: the perception on the administration in accordance withr good governance principles, economic situations, political and social situations, the abilities of the Criminal Justice personnel and the information on the Criminal Justice Process. 2) Psychological factors; the moral reasoning, future orientation and self -- control, achievement motive and good mental condition. 3) Psychological states; attitudes toward the Criminal Justice Process.

2. The results of the study on the factos that affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process found that the factors which affect the direct achievement are the acknowledgement on the information about the Criminal Justice Process, good attitudes toward the Criminal Justice Process, and the well perception on economic situations, political and social situations. These 3 factors altogether can explain the confidence variance in the Criminal Justice Process percentage of 41%. The research also found the indirect affect on the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process are achievement motive, the perception on the abilities of the Criminal Justice personnel, economic situations, political and social situations, good mental condition and the acknowledgement on the information on the Criminal Justice Process, respectively. All the 6 factors mentioned can explain the variance of the positive attitudes toward the Criminal Justice Process percentage of 95% and a;so found that the factors which affect the public confidence toward the Criminal Justice Process the most art the positive attitudes toward the Criminal Justice Process, the perception on the administration in accordance with good governance principles, achievement motive, good mental condition and acknowledgement the abilities of the Criminal Justice personnel, respectively.