Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale

Test whether cooperation with the police can be modelled as a place-based norm that varies in strength from one neighborhood to the next. Estimate whether perceived police legitimacy predicts an individual’s willingness to cooperate in weak-norm neighborhoods, but not in strong-norm neighborhoods wh...

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Authors: Jackson, Jonathan 1974- (Author) ; Brunton-Smith, Ian (Author) ; Sturgis, Patrick (Author) ; Bradford, Ben (Author) ; Oliveira, Thiago R. (Author) ; Pósch, Krisztián (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 547-572
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Keywords:
Police
Legitimacy
Cooperation
Micro-place
Multi-level modelling
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Summary:Test whether cooperation with the police can be modelled as a place-based norm that varies in strength from one neighborhood to the next. Estimate whether perceived police legitimacy predicts an individual’s willingness to cooperate in weak-norm neighborhoods, but not in strong-norm neighborhoods where most people are either willing or unwilling to cooperate, irrespective of their perceptions of police legitimacy.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/s10940-020-09467-5