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The impact of police uniforms in changing views of police legitimacy and driving intentions among young people: an experimental trial
ObjectivesThis study aimed to determine if young people’s views of police legitimacy and intentions to offend are affected by the delivery of a road...
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Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?
Research suggests perceptions of neighborhood social dynamics and judgments that the police follow fair procedures are strongly correlated with...
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Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment
ObjectivesTest the effects of police compliance with the restrictions on their authority embedded in Social Contract Theory (SCT) on police...
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Sources of Police Legitimacy in Europe: the Role of Immigrant Status and Ethnic Discrimination
Police legitimacy is crucial in democratic societies because it promotes citizen’s cooperation with the police and compliance with the law....
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The Spatial Dimension of Police Legitimacy: An Exploration of Two Pacific Island States
The police legitimacy literature is grounded predominantly in studies from the Global North. In these contexts, technology and economic resources...
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In Times of Political Crisis, Why People Support the Police: Police Legitimacy in Taiwan
The current research examines the support for the police during a political crisis. Relying on a random sample collected from the Taipei metropolitan...
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Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police
Recent debates over policing have centered on the proper role of policing in society. Using the lenses of democratic policing and police legitimacy,...
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The Path from Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy to Compliance and Cooperation in the Context of Terrorism in Multiculturally Diverse Student Population in the Netherlands
An expanding body of research consistently reinforces Tyler’s two-stage-based self-regulatory theory of procedural justice. This study makes two...
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Aggressive policing and undermined legitimacy: assessing the impact of police stops at gunpoint on perceptions of police in São Paulo, Brazil
ObjectivesTest the effects of a recent police stop and a recent police stop at gunpoint on changes in attitudes towards the police among residents of...
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An Empirical Test of Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Public Cooperation with the Police in China
Grounded in the pathbreaking work of Tom Tyler and his colleagues, procedural justice and legitimacy have been widely tested in different fields in...
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Technology and Police Legitimacy
Through a consideration of the use of mobile devices by the police and the public, this chapter explores some of the potential issues raised by the...
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Armed Police in an Unarmed Country: Legitimacy and Self-Legitimacy of English Firearms Officers
The British police are known for their ‘unarmed exceptionalism’: currently, fewer than 5% of officers are trained as authorised firearms officers...
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Experiment on camera perspective bias in videos of police-citizen encounters
ObjectivesThis study tested camera perspective bias in evaluating a video-recorded police and citizen interaction.
MethodsUsing professional actors,...
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Enhancing Police Accountability and Legitimacy
As the institution responsible for exercising the state monopoly on violence within US borders, the legitimacy of policing depends on its...
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Do police videos impact youths’ willingness to cooperate with the police? Results from a national experiment
ObjectiveTest how virtual, vicarious exposure to a procedurally just versus unjust police traffic stop impacts youths’ perceptions of police...
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts
ObjectivesTo systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the association between procedural justice and legitimacy in...
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Beyond police apologies: Concrete plans of action increase the public’s willingness to cooperate with police
ObjectiveThis experimental study examined if people are more willing to cooperate with police after police apologize and provide a plan of action to...
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Police Legitimacy in Russia: Explaining Millennials’ Obligation to Obey and Willingness to Cooperate
Prior research in many Western democracies suggests a strong relationship between police legitimacy and citizens’ willingness to comply with police...
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Chief Police Officers’ Stories of Legitimacy Power, Protection, Consent and Control
This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise...
