Policing: An International Journal: Volume 40 Issue 3

Police legitimacy: an introduction

Jannie Noppe, Antoinette Verhage, Anjuli Van Damme

Research on police legitimacy: the state of the art

Robert E. Worden, Sarah J. McLean

The purpose of this paper is to review the “state of the art” in research on police legitimacy. The authors consider two bodies of theory and empirical research on police…

The “silver bullet” to good policing: a mirage: An analysis of the effects of political ideology and ethnic identity on procedural justice

Sebastian Roché, Guillaume Roux

Procedural justice (PJ) during police-citizen interactions has often been portrayed as a “silver bullet” to good policing, as it could function as a means to gain trust, voluntary…

Legitimacy judgments in neighborhood context: Antecedents in “good” vs “bad” neighborhoods

Tammy Rinehart Kochel

Policing differs across neighborhoods, but little is known about how context conditions residents’ assessments about police legitimacy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate…

Promoting Muslims’ cooperation with police in counter-terrorism: The interaction between procedural justice, police legitimacy and law legitimacy

Kristina Murphy, Natasha S. Madon, Adrian Cherney

Procedural justice is important for fostering peoples’ willingness to cooperate with police. Theorizing suggests this relationship results because procedural justice enhances…

Building police legitimacy in a high demand environment: the case of Yukon, Canada

Curt Taylor Griffiths, Peter Clark

Police legitimacy has emerged as a core concept in the study of twenty-first century policing. The purpose of this paper is to contribute new knowledge by examining the dynamics…

Explaining procedural justice during police-suspect encounters: A systematic social observation study

John D. McCluskey, Michael Reisig

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a series of hypotheses regarding the use of procedurally just policing during suspect encounters.

How to measure procedurally (un)just behavior during police-citizen interactions

Anjuli Van Damme

The purpose of this paper is to validate an instrument, based on previous research, for measuring procedurally just and unjust police behavior during interactions with citizens.

Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England

Layla Skinns, Lindsey Rice, Amy Sprawson, Andrew Wooff

The purpose of this paper is to examine how police authority – in its “soft” form – is used and understood by staff and detainees in police custody in England, examining how these…

Identity, legitimacy and “making sense” of police use of force

Ben Bradford, Jenna Milani, Jonathan Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which police legitimacy and social identity explain variation in public acceptance of police use of force. The authors assess…

Private police legitimacy: the case of internal investigations by fraud examiners

Petter Gottschalk

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legitimacy of private policing of financial crime by fraud examiners.