Objectives The current review has two aims:(1) to synthesize the impact of unexpected
events on trust in police across different contexts and types of events, and (2) to evaluate the …

Purpose This paper examines the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing's
recommendation that police promote trust and legitimacy by creating a culture of …

This chapter describes theories of crowd dynamics and the role of police during public
assemblies. Historical crowd psychology theories, which are now outdated but still inform …

Rassismus durch die Polizei verstößt gegen die Grundsätze des demokratischen
Rechtsstaates. Bürger: innen müssen darauf vertrauen können, dass sich staatliche …

Independent police oversight is a specific government delegated function that has been
neglected by scholars of regulation. The main goal of this article is to understand the …

Understanding when, to what extent, and in which contexts high-profile police actions
influence trust in and legitimacy of the police is important because police perceptions are …

Sociologists usually conceptualize events as unexpected occurrences bringing about long-
lasting transformations of social structures. Following this definition, most empirical studies …

High-profile incidents of police misconduct can have serious consequences for public trust
in the police. A recent study in the British Journal of Political Science found that Eric Garner's …

The relationship between police and ethnic minorities has been the subject of increasing
interest in many Western societies in recent years. We examine first-generation immigrants' …

Previous studies have shown that police assaults reduce trust in the police among the group
affected by the incidents. As the phenomenon of plural policing emerges and the actors in …