This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of
England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime …

Objectives To systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the
association between procedural justice and legitimacy in policing. Methods A meta-analysis …

While procedural justice theory has become the dominant paradigm in thinking about police
legitimacy, it has several important weaknesses. First, procedural justice's conceptually …

President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing recently endorsed procedural
justice as a way to restore trust between police and communities. Yet police–citizen …

Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the
subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic minorities. However in spite of this research …

Objective: Why do people justify intergroup violence? We examine public attitudes toward
violence perpetrated by indigenous activists to claim for rights and violence by police officers …

Objectives: Judgments about police procedural fairness consistently have a stronger
influence on how the public ascribes legitimacy to the police than evaluations of police …

In a series of recent influential papers, Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe make the case
for a 'dialogic model'of police legitimacy, wherein legitimacy is envisaged as emergent in a …

Objectives This paper examines the effects of a procedural justice policing intervention on
citizens' feelings of obligation to obey police. It examines whether the efficacy of procedural …

In 2020 governments worldwide implemented various laws and social distancing restrictions
to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. At the same time, conspiracy theories emerged …