Objectives Test the asymmetry thesis of police-citizen contact that police trustworthiness and
legitimacy are affected more by negative than by positive experiences of interactions with …

Objectives To test whether normative and non-normative forms of obligation to obey the
police are empirically distinct and to assess whether they exhibit different dynamics in terms …

We review the concepts of legitimacy, trust, and legal cynicism in the context the debate
about police legitimacy, discuss the extent to which these concepts relate to each other, and …

From social media to courts of law, recordings of interracial police officer-civilian interactions
are now widespread and publicly available. People may be motivated to preferentially …

We examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil.
According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous …

Police must rely on the public's cooperation; however, youths' views of police are historically
low. To understand the dynamics of these intergroup relations, this study integrates two …

A lack of formal accountability in the aftermath of police violence against communities of
color has long fueled public demands for increased police oversight. Yet, little is known …

This article presents the quantitative findings from a mixed-method study of perceptions of
crime in inner Sydney. A survey was deployed via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview …

Objectives Understanding if police malfeasance might be “contagious” is vital to identifying
efficacious paths to police reform. Accordingly, we investigate whether an officer's propensity …

Abstract The murder of George Floyd triggered a broad social response and noticeable shift
in public opinion of policing. Since policing is dependent upon public cooperation, a …