RT Article
T1 Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 49
IS 4
SP 590
OP 613
A1 Nam, Yongjae
A2 Melde, Chris
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902130995
AB Research suggests perceptions of neighborhood social dynamics and judgments that the police follow fair procedures are strongly correlated with residents’ views of police legitimacy. The nature of these relationships is less clear, including the extent to which the association between informal neighborhood dynamics and police legitimacy is influenced by perceptions of police practice. We examined whether perceptions of procedural justice moderate the effect of collective efficacy beliefs on police legitimacy evaluations. Utilizing data from three city-level victimization surveys (N = 2,837), we found that the influence of collective efficacy beliefs on police legitimacy evaluations was moderated by judgments that the police follow fair procedures. When perceptions of procedural justice are at their mean or higher, collective efficacy beliefs are unassociated with police legitimacy. Conversely, collective efficacy beliefs have a stronger impact on legitimacy evaluations when procedural justice is low. Results suggest perceptions that police treat people fairly minimize the impact of low collective efficacy beliefs on police legitimacy evaluations.
K1 Relational model of authority
K1 Group-value model
K1 Collective Efficacy
K1 Procedural Justice
K1 Police Legitimacy
DO 10.1007/s12103-024-09753-z