Legitimating practices: revisiting the predicates of police legitimacy

Procedural justice theory predicts a relationship between police behaviour, individuals’ normative evaluation of police and decisions to comply with laws. Yet, prior studies of procedural justice have rather narrowly defined the potentially relevant predicates of police behaviour. This study expands...

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Authors: Huq, Aziz Z. 1974- (Author) ; Jackson, Jonathan 1974- (Author) ; Trinkner, Rick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 5, Pages: 1101–1122
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Keywords:
Policing
Procedural justice
Distributive justice
Surveillance
Legitimacy
Police-citizen encounter
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Bürger-Polizei-Verhältnis
Verfahrensgerechtigkeit
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Summary:Procedural justice theory predicts a relationship between police behaviour, individuals’ normative evaluation of police and decisions to comply with laws. Yet, prior studies of procedural justice have rather narrowly defined the potentially relevant predicates of police behaviour. This study expands the scope of procedural justice theory by considering a broad array of policing components, including unobserved actions such as electronic surveillance, respecting the limits of one’s legal authority, and the unequal or equal distribution of policing resources between different groups. Analysing data from a national probability sample of adults in England and Wales, we (1) present a comprehensive investigation of the heterogeneous elements of policing related to legitimacy judgments and (2) contribute to debate about the nature of legitimacy.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azw037