OBJECTIVES Crime control theater refers to intuitively appealing laws that appear to address crime while lacking any evidence that they actually do so (e.g., sex offender registration and residence restriction laws, which do not reduce recidivism). Despite their ineffectiveness, public support for such laws tends to be high. HYPOTHESES We predicted that making people aware of these laws' failure to reduce crime would lower support for them. METHOD Participants (recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk; Study 1: N = 298, mean age = 35.60, 47.7% self-identified as women and 75.8% as White; Study 2: N = 147, mean age = 35.03, 40.1% self-identified as women and 85.0% as White; Study 3: N = 552, mean age = 35.86, 42.9% self-identified as women and 76.4% as White) read about sex offender registration and residence restriction policies and rated their support for these laws, confidence in their opinions about them, and perceptions of their efficacy before and after reading counterevidence highlighting these laws' failure to reduce sex crimes. RESULTS Although exposure to counterevidence somewhat lowered support (average within-subjects d = -0.69), general attitudes remained positive even at the postcounterevidence phase (average d = 0.46 against the scale midpoint). This pattern held when manipulating the criminal population being targeted (sex offenders vs. white-collar offenders; Study 1), when tailoring counterevidence to people's self-stated justifications for supporting these laws (Studies 2-3), and despite favorable ratings of the counterevidence's strength and credibility. CONCLUSION Support for crime control theater policies persists despite explicit knowledge that they do not reduce crime, highlighting the need for alternative methods of dissuading people from their support for these ineffective laws. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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演出必须继续吗？证据不能改变对犯罪控制区政策的态度。

目的犯罪控制区是指直观上吸引人的法律，似乎在解决犯罪时却没有任何证据表明确实这样做（例如，性犯罪者注册和居住限制法，这不会减少累犯）。尽管无效，但公众对此类法律的支持程度往往很高。假设我们预计，让人们意识到这些法律在减少犯罪方面的失败会降低对这些法律的支持。方法参与者（从Amazon Mechanical Turk招募；研究1：N = 298，平均年龄为35.60，47.7％的女性为白人，75.8％为白人；研究2：N = 147，平均年龄为35.03，40.1％的自我认同女性为女性，白人为85.0％；研究3：N = 552，平均年龄为35.86，自我认同为女性的42.9％和76。4％（白人）阅读有关性罪犯的注册和居住限制政策，并评估他们对这些法律的支持，对他们对法律的看法的信心以及对证据效力的看法，在阅读证据后强调这些法律未能减少性犯罪。结果尽管暴露于反证据的支持程度有所降低（受试者内部平均d = -0.69），但即使在反证据后阶段，总体态度仍是积极的（相对于量表中点，平均d = 0.46）。这种模式在操纵目标犯罪人口时（性犯罪者对白领犯罪者；研究1），针对人们支持这些法律的自我陈述的理由量身定制证据时（研究2-3），尽管对犯罪分子的评分很高，但这种模式仍然存在。证据的力量和信誉。结论尽管明确知道不能减少犯罪，但仍支持犯罪控制区政策，这表明需要采取其他方法劝阻人们对这些无效法律的支持。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。