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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Police legitimacy"”.
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Personality and Perceived Police Legitimacy
<p>Police legitimacy refers to one’s trust in the police to be fair and make just decisions in their interactions with the public. Individuals’ perceptions of police legitimacy play a crucial role in predicting how they interact with police. More positive perceptions are associated with cooperative …
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… that could explain variations in how acceptable police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were used in the current study. The vignettes manipulated two factors that were hypothesized to influence perceptions …
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“Seeing the word ‘police’ can be a huge point of recoil”: a qualitative examination of trans people’s perceptions and questions of police legitimacy
… people’s experiences and perceptions of police within Canada. Transgender people experience a wide variety of negative interactions with police, including disrespectful language, rude and inappropriate behaviour, verbal and physical harassment, and the denial of police services (Dwyer, …
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The pursuit of procedural justice and police legitimacy: A case study of community police officers’ perceptions of the perceived benefits of higher education
<p>This is a case study of suburban community police officers and their perception of benefits of higher education as it relates to outcomes of procedural justice and legitimacy. Acknowledging controversial, high-profile incidents which have caused the police profession to be generalized in a …
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Implications of the Different Experiences of Corruption on Police Confidence and Legitimacy in Ghana: An Exploratory Study.
… corruption experiences upon confidence in the police as well as police legitimacy. Since Tyler published his seminal work Why People Obey the Law, legitimacy and confidence in the criminal justice system has become an important concept in criminological analysis. Various studies have sought to …
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Race and Contact at Play: Understanding Blacks’ Experiences and Perceptions with Law Enforcement
… has remained strained, raising concerns about police legitimacy, fairness and trustworthiness. A long-standing history of systemic racial discrimination, marked by police brutality and racial profiling, has disproportionately targeted Black communities, leaving deep social scars that continue …
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Intelligence-Led and Community-Based Policing: The Effects on Community Relations
As the police organization evolves to meet the ever-changing needs of the 21st century, policing styles and philosophies continue to innovate in an attempt to reduce crime and maintain order. Each fluctuation in policing style has affected the public, particularly minority groups, in its own …
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Procedural Justice And Police Officers: The Forgotten Perspective
… has been increased attention to questions about police legitimacy and the expectation of citizen compliance. Some scholars argue that procedurally just practices benefit police-citizen interactions (see Mazerolle et al., 2012, 2013). While there are many studies that focus on procedural justice …
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The Role of Ethnic Minority Communities and Identities in Explaining Relationships with and Attitudes toward the Police in the London Borough of Hackney
… relationships with and attitudes toward the police. The study’s key question is: is ethnicity salient for understanding people’s views of the police in Hackney? In answering this question, I adopt Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) systemic framework, which proposes that the developing individual is …
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Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras
… long used to ensure the continuation of specific police practices and the police institution itself. Promising increased transparency and accountability and hence legitimacy, Body Worn Cameras (BWC) purport to show the facts of police work and critical incidents precisely as they happened. …
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Woke : internet news and social media on recent attitudes towards police use of force
… has long featured high-profile incidents of police use of force; however, exposure to these incidents may be increasing because of the accessibility of smartphones, social media, and Internet news. Police are concerned about the impact this potential increase in negative publicity may be …
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Devaluation and Solvability: The Quest for Factors Affecting Violent Crime Clearance
… to examine the effect of victim, incident, police, and community characteristics on violent crime clearance by arrest and victim noncooperation. The results showed that aggravated assaults against non-White victims are less likely to result in an arrest than those involving White victims, …
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Exploring Police-Community Relations Through Homicide.
… worldwide. This thesis investigates how police-community relations influence the homicide clearance rate and cold case homicide investigations. Using a mixed-methods approach, it draws on two studies: in-depth interviews with stakeholders (police officers, victims’ families, and victim …
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Holding the police to account: A critical analysis of the structures of police accountability and the introduction and operation of Police and Crime Commissioners
This thesis critically examines structures of police accountability, in particular the introduction and operation of Police and Crime Commissioners [PCCs]. The first chapter begins by identifying accountability as the very bedrock of policing. Accountability is then defined before examining its key …
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An exploration of the (changing) roles, functions and challenges experienced by policewomen in the operational environment of the SAPS: Western Cape Province
… functions and challenges experienced by policewomen appointed in the operational policing environment of the South African Police Service (SAPS). The intent is to develop insight into the first-hand experiences and perceptions of operational policewomen and to inform practice initiatives …
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Underrepresented: The Experiences of Black People Who Pursued Careers in Minnesota Law Enforcement
… Americans are overrepresented in Minnesota police shootings and officer-involved fatalities, they are underrepresented in Minnesota law enforcement. The reasons are complex, interconnected, grounded in historical racial barriers and racist practices, and reinforced by current obstacles such …
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Law enforcement recruitment: the social, economic, and political considerations for police officer recruitment programs
… administrators. Public organization leaders and police agency executives struggle with constant budget constraints, mounting expectations in law enforcement mandates, personnel management conflicts, and modem socially engineered perceptions on police legitimacy. Despite these obstacles, citizen's …
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Logical Legitimist Treatise: On Policing and Protests in Hong Kong
This thesis is a study of legitimacy and protest policing in contemporary Hong Kong through a framework called the legitimist game. Legitimacy describes power relations that are recognised as rightful. It has become an established concept in criminology, with a growing body of literature within the …
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Local Law Enforcement and Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives 2007-2021
… Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives (2007-2021) Tonya D. Chapman ABSTRACT The Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) authorized the U.S. Immigration and Customs …
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