RT Article
T1 Validating the Police Legitimacy Scale with a Canadian Sample
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 61
IS 4
SP 1
OP 23
A1 Ewanation, Logan
A1 Bennell, Craig
A1 Blaskovits, Brittany
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1688784888
AB For years, scholars and law enforcement agencies have been interested in examining the public's perceptions of police legitimacy. However, previous studies have operationalized "police legitimacy" in a wide variety of ways. In an attempt to standardize this construct, Tankebe, Reisig, and Wang (2016) recently developed and validated the Police Legitimacy Scale using samples from the United States and Ghana. To determine the validity of this scale in a Canadian context, we had 2,962 Canadian community members complete a demographics survey as well as Tankebe et al.'s (2016) Police Legitimacy Scale. Descriptive statistics suggest the majority of responses to the scale do not differ across demographic factors, such as gender or race. Results from a confirmatory factor analysis indicate the previously proposed four-factor model of police legitimacy (lawfulness, procedural fairness, distributive fairness, and effectiveness) strongly fits participants' responses.
K1 Confirmatory Factor Analysis
K1 Canadian police
K1 Ghana
K1 Law enforcement agencies
K1 Police Legitimacy
K1 Public Opinion
K1 Attitudes towards police
K1 Perceptions of police
K1 Police legitimacy scale
K1 échelle de légitimité de la police
DO 10.3138/cjccj.2018-0036