RT Article
T1 Police Legitimacy and Compliance With the Law Among Chinese Youth
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 11
SP 3536
OP 3561
A1 Liu, Siyu
A1 Liu, Jianhong
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1662871449
AB The process-based model of policing garnered considerable support in the discourse on police legitimacy. However, findings are largely based on Western contexts, and little attention has been paid to the model advanced by Tyler that police legitimacy helps promote compliance. Using a high school sample (N = 711) from China, we follow Tankebe's operationalization and examine the role of legitimacy in youth support for the police and whether legitimacy helps predict compliance with the law. Findings indicate that procedural justice and shared values are strong predictors of youth support to the police, and this support positively predicts compliance with the law. Distributive fairness exerts an independent effect on compliance while having been questioned by the police is negatively related to compliance.
K1 Police legitimacy
K1 Procedural justice
K1 Compliance with the law
K1 Juvenile delinquency
DO 10.1177/0306624X17740559