This research updates and expands upon Decker's article “Citizen attitudes toward the
police: a review of past findings and suggestions for future policy” by summarizing the …

This Campbell systematic review assesses the direct and indirect benefits of public police
interventions that use procedurally just dialogue. The review summarises findings from 30 …

Objectives This study tests the generality of Tyler's process-based model of policing by
examining whether the effect of procedural justice and competing variables (ie, distributive …

Purpose This study explored whether police departments have engaged in “de-policing”—
withdrawal from active police work—in response to unprecedented levels of negative …

Tyler's process-based model of policing suggests that the police can enhance their
perceived legitimacy and trustworthiness in the eyes of the public when they exercise their …

Research Summary This study examined 40 African‐American young men's direct and
vicarious experiences with police harassment and violence, and their impact on perceptions …

This article examines the impact of personal experience on popular assessments of the
quality of police service. Following past research, it addresses the influence of personal and …

Sociologists have given considerable attention to identifying the neighborhood-level social-
interactional mechanisms that influence outcomes such as crime, educational attainment …

Researchers have emphasized the importance of direct encounters with the police as a
determinant of attitudes toward the police, yet cross-sectional studies allow for limited causal …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …