RT Article
T1 Why do we view the police to be legitimate? Examining shame-sanction emotions on perception of police legitimacy
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 49
IS 4
SP 309
OP 325
A1 Lee, Sunguook
A1 Jung, Eui Rom
A1 Callahan, Jason
A2 Jung, Eui Rom
A2 Callahan, Jason
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1940115841
AB The current goal of the study was to expand the police legitimacy literature by investigating shame-sanction emotion as a mediator of procedural justice and police effectiveness on the perception of legitimacy to see if one’s shame tendencies have any impact on police legitimacy constructs using a South Korean college sample (n = 2188). The results indicate that procedural justice and police effectiveness were still the main drivers of police legitimacy that led to an increase in sense of obligation to obey and cooperate with the police. Most importantly, albeit smaller in magnitude, Shame emotion was also a significant predictor of legitimacy, and had a small yet significant indirect effect on the obligation to obey and cooperate with the police. Practical policy implications are provided at the end.
K1 cooperate with the police
K1 shame emotions
K1 obligation to obey
K1 Police Legitimacy
K1 Police Effectiveness
K1 Procedural Justice
DO 10.1080/01924036.2024.2434266