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A Psychological study on the Demand of Punishment Strengthening - From the Social psychological perspective about the Sense of Justice and the Desire for Retribution -

  • Legal Theory & Practice Review
  • Abbr : LTPR
  • 2024, 12(3), pp.383-406
  • Publisher : The Korea Society for Legal Theory and Practice Inc.
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law
  • Received : August 7, 2024
  • Accepted : August 24, 2024
  • Published : August 31, 2024

Kang Sun 1

1수원과학대학교

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ABSTRACT

The perception of unfairness in our society as a whole is very high, and in the background the deepening of public distrust in the legislative authority and judicial systems is emerging as the main cause. In particular, the cause of distrust and unfair evaluation of the Judicial system is shifting from controversy over procedural inequality based on economic inequality in the past to dissatisfaction with sentencing, that is. low penal sentencing. This phenomenon can be said to be a situation in which public belief in the rule of law of the state is threatened. the formation of a sense of justice shared by our society and the source of the desire for punishment accompanying it were considered from an evolutionary psychological point of view, and the psychological mechanism that requires strengthening punishment was attempted from a social psychological perspective. In conclusion, it was judged that our society is afraid that the sense of cooperation, which is the basis of community survival, is being damaged by a series of events that threaten a sense of justice, and anger over the powerlessness of the rule of law is in place. In this regard, policy implications for restoring faith in a sense of justice and trust in the rule of law were presented.

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