English Dictionary

legal cynicism

名詞

不可算名詞

(law) A perspective under which criminal law and law enforcement are seen as unresponsive or indifferent to public safety, and instead serve primarily to exclude disfavored communities from society.

日本語の意味

刑事法や法執行機関が、市民の安全保障よりもむしろ、社会的に不利な立場にあるコミュニティを排除する道具と見なされるという視点。 / 法制度そのものやその施行に対し、市民が抱く懐疑心や不信感。

Community leaders warned that decades of legal cynicism had eroded trust in the police and created barriers to justice for marginalized neighborhoods.

地域の指導者たちは、何十年にもわたり犯罪法や法執行が公共の安全に無関心で、むしろ不利益を受けるコミュニティを排除するための手段であると見る見方が警察への信頼を損ない、周縁化された地域の正義への障壁を生んだと警告した。

意味（1）

(law) A perspective under which criminal law and law enforcement are seen as unresponsive or indifferent to public safety, and instead serve primarily to exclude disfavored communities from society.

Sampson and Bartusch measure legal cynicism using five variables designed to assess general beliefs about the legitimacy of law and social norms.