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Roman David research focuses on the topic of international criminal tribunals and the way people perceive these tribunals on delivering justice for groups or individuals. According to David, people believe that there is an existence of biases when the international criminal tribunals deliver justice. These biases are very dangerous for the legal system as others believe the international criminal tribunal is the right way.
Regarding the sample of the study, David conducts research on the citizens of Croatia. The population in the research is people from around the globe this because the International Criminal Court or International criminal tribunal can be set up anywhere due to international crime happening in like war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression. The population of 1,000 adult respondents in Croatia was selected to represent the rest of the world (David, 2014). This study employed a survey experiment method as a research design. The causal relations were established, and research findings were generalized to represent the entire world population (David, 2014). The research dependent variable is the perception of justice as the International Criminal Tribunal deliver their rulings while the independent variable is the experimental vignette which is a short description of situation or individual.
For the effective result, David conducted experimental vignette that will allow the elimination of biases between the groups (David, 2014). He used a name that both Croatia and Serbia will not see it to be biased. Through biases elimination between the two groups, David was able to get a perfect result concerning Croatia perception of justice and the International Criminal Tribunals.
For the research method impacts on internal and external validity, the research results can be applied to the rest of International Criminal Tribunals. As internal validity is the cases where the degree of confidence in the study tested is trustworthy, and nothing is influencing the variables. External validity is the case when the result can be applied to other situations. Therefore, with survey experiment, research survey conforms with internal and external validity as the findings are participants responses and not the researcher perceptions.
References
David, R. (2014). International Criminal Tribunals and the Perception of Justice: The Effect of
the ICTY in Croatia. International Journal of Transitional Justice. Retrieved 17 October 2020, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270782516_International_Criminal_Tribunals_and_the_Perception_of_Justice_The_Effect_of_the_ICTY_in_Croatia