The Popular Indignation In Criminal Justice And Its Coping Strategy

The popular indignation is a kind of social phenomenon, which will cause some legal issues when we relate it to the criminal justice. The popular indignation in criminal justice is a group behavior caused by crime, through which a number of people exert pressure on the state's judicial activities that have effect on their interest beyond judicial proceedings, in order to affect the course and result of the criminal proceedings. The common form is the demand of severe punishments for criminals.At present, the popular indignation caused by crime arises usually in our country. We must not underestimate its influence and destructiveness to criminal justice. To do depth and systematic research on the phenomenon, it is of great significance to its legal regulation and the solution to relevant problems.The article is composed of three parts. The first part will redefine the popular indignation in criminal justice based on other people's achievements; analyze the common and special reasons in our country that cause the popular indignation; and make an objective evaluation on it. The second part will do research on the procedural and substantive problems arising from popular indignation in different stages of criminal justice, and bring forward corrective measure to these problems. The third part will point out that the popular indignation has some reasonable components of public opinion, but we can not identify it with public opinion simply. To deal with the problems caused by popular indignation in criminal justice, we need to emphasize right protection and judicial fairness. We can not break laws and do harm to defendant's right to calm down the popular indignation. The right coping strategy is to take various measures to lead it.