A total of 217 people filled out this survey. The purpose is to investigate the general public’s understanding of Taiwan’s High Prosecutors Office and Prosecutor Xsing.

Basic Information

Gender

The gender of those who filled out the survey was highest in females, taking up 123 of the 217 responses with a percentage of 56.7%. The second-highest gender of respondents is male, taking up 92 of the 217 responses with a percentage of 42.4%.

Education Level

The highest number level in education is university with the percentage of 35.9%, followed by senior high with a percentage of 25.3%.

Age

The age of respondents mostly falls in 13-18 years old as students who take up 35.9%, followed by 46-55 years old, it is possible to conclude this group is the parents of those students.

Profession

About profession, 94 respondents are students with a percentage of 43.3%, followed by Cultural and educational institutions which take up 12.9%, and business which take up 11.1%.

Taiwan High Prosecutor's Office

1. How much do you think you know about the Taiwan High Prosecutor’s Office?

35.9% of people select the score 2 out of 5, the other 30% choose 1 out of 5, the score of 5 out of 5 only takes 2.8% of the respondents. With lower scores meaning Ignorant and higher scores meaning higher knowledge, the data shows average citizens believe they lack knowledge about the Taiwan High Prosecutor’s Office.

2. What are the matters handled by the Taiwan High Procurators Office?

This is a multiple-choice question, all of the options are the correct answers. But the results are relatively evenly displayed, the option with the highest voted number has 57.6% in 217 people, the lowest has 35.9% with the difference of 21.7%, as a conclusion average people have a certain level of understanding about the matters handled by the Taiwan High Procurators Office.

3. Which narratives of the procuratorate and the judiciary are correct?

This question also has multiple answers, with option two being the only wrong answer. The correct answers include option one “procuratorial departments have procurators, judiciary has judges”, option three “the judge is responsible for the verdict, and the prosecutor plays the role of the plaintiff”, and option four “the procuratorial agency is subordinate to the Ministry of Justice of the Executive Yuan, and the judicial agency is subordinate to the Judicial Yuan”. Option three and four has the same result of 55.8% votes from 217 people, although it has a difference compared to option one’s 74.2%, the difference is still smaller compared to option two’s 21.2%. According to the data, it’s able to tell average people has a certain level of understanding about the procuratorate and the judiciary.

Prosecutor Xsing Taizhao

1. How much do you think you know about the duties of prosecutors?

34.6% of respondents choose 2 out of 5, while 33.6% select 3 out of 5, and the score of 5 out of 5 takes 3.2%, showing average citizens believe they have a certain knowledge about the duties of prosecutors, which is higher compared to the knowledge about the Taiwan High Prosecutor’s Office.

2. Which of the following is the prosecutor in a criminal law case?

The correct answer to this question is option C, 77.4% of people answered correctly while 13.8% of people choose option A, speculating they’re mistaken by the dialogue in the picture. The data shows average citizens have basic knowledge about prosecutors.

4. Do you know the difference between a prosecutor and a judge?

In this question, 61.3% of people think they know the difference between prosecutor and judge, 29.5% of them are not sure, and the remaining 9.2% of them don't know, which also shows that most of the general public has a certain degree of basic understanding of prosecutors.

5.Have you heard of Xsing Taizhao?

82.5% said they had never heard of Xsing Taizhao, and only 17.5% heard, showing majority of the general population had never heard of Xsing Taizhao.

6. Where have you heard of Xsing Taizhao?

According to the previous question, the majority of people will never hear it, accounting for 80.6 percent of the total, while the majority of people who have heard it are from radio stations, newspapers, and magazines, accounting for 5.5 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively.

7. What reforms did Xsing Taizhao make to the judiciary?

This is a multiple-choice question, all of the options are the correct answers. Among all the answers, "I don't know&" accounts for the vast majority. The other options left are unevenly distributed, showing a majority of the general population doesn’t know what did Xong Taizhao make to the judiciary.

8. At the handover ceremony, Xsing Taizhao proposed which of the following are the "three essentials'' of judicial reform?

This is a multiple-choice question, the answer is to have empathy, to be close to the people, and to effectively fight crime. 73.7% choose to effectively fight crime, 68.2% choose to be close to the people, but according to the 5th question, up to 82.5% of people said that they had never heard of Xsing Taizhao, but only 1.8% chose not to know, speculating that most of them were random guessing or searching on the Internet, so the data on this question was not worth referencing.

Our country's judicial system

1. What kind of reforms do you want the judiciary to make?

This question is also a multiple-choice question, and the most people hope that the judiciary can move towards professional adjudication and those who adhere to the core values of justice

2. Which of the following options do you think is the most important for judicial reform?

54.9% said that judicial reform should put the trust of the whole people, fair and professional justice first.