Round 5 module entitled ‘trust in justice,' we link people’s perceptions of police legitimacy to their compliance with the … law and their willingness to cooperate with the police and criminal courts. We also extend the existing literature by …

This paper examines the impact of procedural justice and sanctions on police legitimacy in a middle-income context … using a between-subjects vignette experiment among civilians and police officers in Honduras. The scenarios involved … civilian-police interactions following a minor infraction, varying in whether the police officer treated the civilian …

This paper examines the narratives of legitimacy used by the police to secure their place in the policing arena. A case … study of the Montréal (Canada) police service’s (SPVM) expansion into the subway system, which had been policed by private … the police’s justifications and adjustment to shifting divisions of policing labour, and provides evidence of a struggle …