This article reviews the contributions of social/organizational psychology to social reform in
the area of law and legal institutions. Social/organizational psychology provides theoretical …

Purpose This study's aim was to systematically review available literature related to the
establishment, purpose, operation, and effectiveness of civilian police oversight entities in …

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 many communities, certain segments of the population do not have trust and confidence
in the police. These issues are particularly intense in some impoverished minority …

Purpose Measuring the normative obligation to obey the police, a key component of police
legitimacy, has proven difficult. Pósch et al.'s (2021) proposed scales appear to overcome …

Objective: We assessed the factors that legitimized the police in the United States at an
important moment of history, just after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. We also …

The present study examined the corelates of individualsvarying attitudes towards reforming
American law enforcement. Building on previous research, we hypothesized that such …

Research summary This study investigates the impact of scientific research findings on
public views of policing topics. Specifically, we conducted an original survey experiment to …

Despite widespread calls to defund or reform police, little research has explored the factors
shaping public support for these proposals. We draw from person-centered morality theory …

We investigate the relationship between civil litigation and policing activity at a systems level
and take a step toward a more rigorous understanding of the effect of civil litigation as an …