Understanding Cooperation With Police in a Diverse Society
Abstract
Past research has shown that procedural justice enhances an authority's legitimacy and encourages people to cooperate with them. However, this past research has examined legitimacy by focusing solely on the perceived legitimacy of authorities and has ignored how people may perceive the legitimacy of the laws and rules authorities enforce. This distinction has relevance to the policing of ethnic minority groups who may come from different cultures or countries where distrust in the law and legal institutions is prevalent. Using survey data collected from a random sample of 1,203 Australians, this paper explores how procedural justice and both institutional and legal legitimacy impact on people's willingness to cooperate with police. The findings will be explained using Braithwaite's (2003; 2010) social distancing framework.
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Individuals who question the legitimacy of the laws or rules being enforced have a stronger positive response to procedural justice than those who do not question legal legitimacy.
“In fact, Murphy and Cherney (2012) find that those individuals that question the legitimacy of the laws or rules being enforced have a stronger positive response to procedural justice than those who do not question legal legitimacy.”
From Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review (2013) · cites this paper as Murphy & Cherney, 2012
Public perceptions of legal legitimacy moderate the effects of procedural justice.
“Significantly, researchers point out, public perceptions of legal legitimacy moderate the effects of procedural justice.”
From Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review (2013) · cites this paper as Murphy & Cherney, 2012
In the case of those who do not support the law and have "disengaged" entirely, procedural justice is likely to compound noncompliance.
“However, in the case of those who do not support the law and have “disengaged” entirely, procedural justice is likely to compound noncompliance (Murphy & Cherney, 2012).”
From Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review (2013) · cites this paper as Murphy & Cherney, 2012
Inflated by 25 percent to render the index comparable to five-point scales, means of 3.5 and 3.8 are similar to levels of legitimacy reported by Tyler and Fagan (2008), Murphy and Cherney (2012), and Murphy et al. (2008).
“Inflated (by 25 percent) to render the index comparable to five-point scales formed in previous research, the means of 3.5 and 3.8 are similar to the levels of legitimacy reported by Tyler and Fagan (2008), Murphy and Cherney (2012), and Murphy et al. (2008).”
From Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy (2017) · cites this paper as Murphy and Cherney 2012
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- Authors
- Murphy, K., & Cherney, A.
- Affiliations
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Murphy, K.
- Venue
- British Journal of Criminology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-08-19
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 181-201
- ISSN
- 0007-0955 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3529
- OpenAlex
- W2100840183
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 112.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The British Journal of Criminology (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Keywords
- procedural justice, institutional legitimacy, legal legitimacy, cooperation with police, ethnic minorities, Braithwaite, police legitimacy
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