RT Article T1 Trust and legitimacy across Europe: a FIDUCIA report on comparative public attitudes towards legal authority JF SSRN eLibrary A1 Bradford, Ben A1 Kuha, Jouni A1 Jackson, Jonathan A1 Hough, Mike A1 Hohl, Katrin A1 Gerber, Monica A2 Kuha, Jouni A2 Jackson, Jonathan A2 Hough, Mike A2 Hohl, Katrin A2 Gerber, Monica LA English YR 2013 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186584554X AB FIDUCIA (New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy) seeks to shed light on a number of distinctively ‘new European’ criminal behaviours which have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of both technology developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe. A key objective of FIDUCIA is to propose and proof a ‘trust-based’ policy model in relation to emerging forms of criminality – to explore the idea that public trust and institutional legitimacy are important for the social regulation of the trafficking of human beings, the trafficking of goods, the criminalisation of migration and ethnic minorities, and cybercrimes. In this paper we detail levels of trust and legitimacy in the 26 countries, drawing on data from Round 5 of the European Social Survey. We also conduct a sensitivity analysis that investigates the effect of a lack of measurement equivalence on national estimates K1 Research DO 10.2139/ssrn.2272975