This article reviews the international evidence on the potential nature, sources, and
consequences of police and legal legitimacy. In brief, I find that procedural justice is the …

Objectives This study tests the generality of Tyler's process-based model of policing by
examining whether the effect of procedural justice and competing variables (ie, distributive …

Positive public perceptions are a critical pillar of the criminal justice system, but the literature
addressing them often fails to offer clear advice regarding the important constructs or the …

Few days after Nigeria attained the sexagenarian status on October 1, 2020, the country has
once again become a subject of unusual discourse both home and abroad. This is due to …

This paper expands previous conceptualizations of appropriate police behavior beyond
procedural justice. The focus of the current study is on the notion of bounded authority—that …

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 …

Procedural justice theory predicts a relationship between police behaviour, individuals'
normative evaluation of police and decisions to comply with laws. Yet, prior studies of …

In a fascinating study into the nature of police legitimacy in Southern China, Sun et al.(2018)
present evidence that what researchers have previously been treated as possible sources of …

This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build
trust in state institutions and move people away from nonstate actors. We find that (truthful) …

I argue that there are unconsidered complexities to police legitimacy and use examples from
my study of police–public consultation forums in Edinburgh, Scotland to illustrate. I make a …