Citizen Views on Punishment: The Difference between Talking and Deciding

Trial by Jury: Story of a Legal Transplant

“…At the start, many people expressed concern that lay citizens would be strongly punitive and that these attitudes could detrimentally influence the mixed court's decisions. Bergoglio () analyzed the votes of lay citizens and professional judges in criminal sentences. Interestingly, lay and professional judges agreed unanimously in 79% of the trials.…”

The Dissemination of Jury Trials: A Reading from Argentina

“…In recent years, the deepening of democracy has changed how citizens experience the legal world, and attitudes towards the law have slowly started to change. Longitudinal surveys have showed that support for the universal nature of the law, an essential element of social adhesion to the rule of law, has grown significantly (Bergoglio ), as well as critical views on the way these institutions are working. Analyzing changes in institutional legitimacy levels between 1984 and 2006 (Turner and Carballo ) pointed out the precipitate drop in the prestige of the judiciary since the restoration of democracy.…”