Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively review the
literature on procedural justice in policing, in the context of both police-citizen encounters …

Over the past 50 years, researchers in the United States and abroad have debated the
inherent inequities within justice systems that contribute to the underreporting of crime to the …

This is the first scholarly monograph marking the social justice turn in technical and
professional communication (TPC). Social justice often draws attention to structural …

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law
related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular …

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 …

The traditional goal of legal authorities has been to obtain widespread public compliance
with the law. Empirical research findings have shown that legitimacy—typically …

Legitimacy (or “the right to exercise power”) is now an established concept in criminological
analysis, especially in relation to policing. Substantial empirical evidence shows the …

An examination of the influence of street stops on the legal socialization of young men
showed an association between the number of police stops they see or experience and a …

Encounters with the criminal justice system shape people's perceptions of the legitimacy of
legal authorities, and the dominant explanatory framework for this relationship revolves …

When do police officers feel confident in their own authority? What factors influence their
sense of their own legitimacy? What is the effect of such 'self-legitimacy'on the way they think …