Does procedural justice influence general satisfaction with police? A study from a hard-to-reach population of immigrants in the United States
This study is the first to examine the impact of procedural justice on general satisfaction with the police in a sample of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States. After refining the legitimacy variable used in prior research, trust was found to load disparately from obligation to obey. Obligation...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal of crime and justice
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-48 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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| Summary: | This study is the first to examine the impact of procedural justice on general satisfaction with the police in a sample of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States. After refining the legitimacy variable used in prior research, trust was found to load disparately from obligation to obey. Obligation to obey was thus employed as an independent variable in the regression analyses. Procedural justice was found to be the strongest predictor of satisfaction with police, although effectiveness and personal experiences also significantly predicted satisfaction. These results establish the importance of procedural justice in gaining satisfaction with the police, and show that obligation may be a discrete variable from legitimacy. Overall, this study’s findings show that the police should weave together normative and instrumental models of policing for increased satisfaction with the police in the Ghanaian immigrant community. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-9119 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0735648X.2016.1193820 |