RE Worden, SJ McLean - Policing: An International Journal, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the “state of the art” in research on police legitimacy. The authors consider two bodies of theory and empirical research on police …
MK Majmundar, D Weisburd - 2018 - books.google.com
Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in …
GD Walters, PC Bolger - Journal of experimental Criminology, 2019 - Springer
Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare procedural justice and legitimacy as correlates and predictors of compliance with the law. Methods A literature review produced …
In recent years, scholars of criminal justice and criminology have brought legitimacy to the forefront of academic and policy discussion. In the most influential definition, institutional …
Under what conditions do people support police use of force? In this paper we assess some of the empirical links between police legitimacy, political ideology (right-wing …
Procedural justice theory predicts a relationship between police behaviour, individuals' normative evaluation of police and decisions to comply with laws. Yet, prior studies of …
K Murphy, B Bradford… - Criminal justice and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Research shows that procedural justice can motivate compliance through the mediating influence of either legitimacy or social identity. Using three waves of longitudinal survey data …
JM Gau, RK Brunson - Journal of contemporary criminal …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Legitimacy acts as the dividing line between a police force that merely possesses legal authority to enforce the law and one that enjoys both legal and moral authority. Research …
Procedural justice theory (PJT) is now a widely utilised theoretical perspective in policing research that acknowledges the centrality of police 'fairness'. Despite its widespread …