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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VerfasserInnen: Jackson, Jonathan 1974- (Verfasst von) ; Brunton-Smith, Ian (Verfasst von) ; Sturgis, Patrick (Verfasst von) ; Bradford, Ben (Verfasst von) ; Oliveira, Thiago R. (Verfasst von) ; Pósch, Krisztián (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Jahr: 2021, Band: 37, Heft: 2, Seiten: 547-572
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Police
Legitimacy
Cooperation
Micro-place
Multi-level modelling
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Zusammenfassung: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