Objectives The procedural justice model of legal socialization holds that personal fairness
judgments influence criminal offending directly and indirectly, via legal orientations (eg …

Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have achieved increased
acceptance and access to social institutions in recent years, they have continued to be …

Procedural justice theory increasingly guides policing reforms in the United States and
abroad. Yet the primary sources of perceived police procedural justice are still unclear …

Scholars widely agree that the public is pragmatic about criminal justice. The empirical basis
for this conclusion is the failure in several previous studies to find a sizable negative …

The organizational justice doctrine has been applied widely in understanding the
performance of criminal justice institutions. Although most of the research has been …

Using survey data from a sample of white, black, and Hispanic incarcerated females (N=
554), we examine if the theoretically hypothesized and empirically demonstrated …

Researchers have recently begun to examine the sources and consequences of police
officers' self-assessed legitimacy, or the ways in which officers justify their authority to …

A substantial body of research shows that people's legal attitudes can have wide-ranging
behavioral consequences. In this article, I use original survey data to examine long-term …

Although the process-based model of criminal justice has received substantial empirical
attention, few previous studies have examined individuals embedded in a criminal lifestyle …

A top priority of prison authorities is maintaining a safe and orderly institutional environment.
Gangs are believed to impede this objective, warranting bespoke policies and practices …