RT Article
T1 Unpacking the Group Engagement Model Within a Police Department: Peers, Legitimacy, and Unintended Consequences
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 52
IS 4
SP 591
OP 610
A1 Sarpong, Dennis
A2 Trinkner, Rick
A2 Solomon, Phillip Atiba
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1918948534
AB The group engagement model (GEM) suggests that a fair internal climate within police departments enhances officer support for fair policing. However, prior work has not considered the role of peers in creating a fair climate, the theoretical positioning of legitimacy perceptions, and the possible unintended effects of internal fairness. Active-duty officers (n = 292) completed a survey measuring their perceptions of peer and supervisor procedural justice, distributive justice, police identification, legitimacy of both command and supervisors and support for procedurally just policing and intrusive policing. The results showed that peer procedural justice was associated with both support for procedurally just policing and intrusive policing. The implications of the result are discussed in terms of the role of peers in a fair internal climate and the potential for a fair climate to have unanticipated effects on officers’ support for various policing strategies.
K1 and intrusive policing
K1 police identification
K1 Distributive Justice
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Procedural Justice
K1 group engagement model
DO 10.1177/00938548241297680