Clarifying the Contours of the Police Legitimacy Measurement Debate: a Response to Cao and Graham

With the emergence of police legitimacy as a major indicator of good policing, scholars have continued to push our conceptual understanding of this construct. In recent years, a debate has emerged about whether four factors—lawfulness, procedural justice, distributive justice, and effectiveness—are...

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Main Author: Trinkner, Rick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Asian journal of criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 309-335
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Police legitimacy
Measurement
Procedural justice
Distributive justice
Effectiveness
Lawfulness
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Summary:With the emergence of police legitimacy as a major indicator of good policing, scholars have continued to push our conceptual understanding of this construct. In recent years, a debate has emerged about whether four factors—lawfulness, procedural justice, distributive justice, and effectiveness—are possible sources of legitimacy judgments (Tyler in Annual Review of Psychology 57, 375-400, 2006) or actual components of legitimacy (Tankebe in Criminology 51, 103-135, 2013). My goal in the present paper is review the contours of this debate.
ISSN:1871-014X
DOI:10.1007/s11417-019-09300-4