Research Summary In 2017, we published an essay (Nagin & Telep, 2017) that challenged
the widely held view that research had plausibly demonstrated that procedurally just …

This article reviews the evidence on whether procedurally just treatment of citizens by
agents of the criminal justice system, usually the police, has the effect of increasing the …

Objectives The process-based model of police legitimacy suggests, when police are
perceived to make fair decisions and treat people with respect, they will be viewed as …

Exploring the relationship between procedural justice and citizen perceptions of police is a
well‐trodden pathway. Studies show that when citizens perceive the police acting in a …

Procedural justice has dominated recent discussions of police interactions with the public. It
has mostly been measured from the perspective of citizens (using surveys or interviews), but …

Objectives We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to synthesize the published
and unpublished empirical evidence on the impact of police-led interventions that use …

Police exercise great discretion in their dealings with the public, but most research on police
discretion focuses on coercive decisions. Despite the demonstrated importance of …

Can police be trained to treat people in fair and respectful ways, and if so, will this influence
evaluations of the police and crime? To answer these questions, we randomly allocated 120 …

President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing recently endorsed procedural
justice as a way to restore trust between police and communities. Yet police–citizen …

The importance of police treating citizens with procedural justice is well recognized.
Recently, scholars have begun exploring officers' views and beliefs that are associated with …