Obscenity and community tolerance.

Abstract

The increased willingness of Canadian courts to entertain the admission of survey data into evidence in obscenity trials, as a means of establishing community standards of tolerance, has important implications for psychologists. Their special knowledge of human behaviour and research design could be of considerable value to the courts in their deliberations. It is argued that psychologists should be making a more significant contribution through the collection of directly relevant and methodologically sound data, and by apprising themselves of the requirements of expert testimony.

Enjeux criminologiques contemporains

“…Comment faire la distinction entre acceptation et tolérance ? (Boyce, 2008 ;Coons et McFarland, 1985). Aux États-Unis, par exemple, le test Miller de 1973 tient compte de ce que l'individu moyen tolérerait pour les autres.…”