Sustained mass behaviour change is needed to tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic, but many
of the required changes run contrary to existing social norms (eg, physical closeness with in …

Within policing research there is currently little research examining the role of procedural
justice in shaping legitimacy and considering their joint role in shaping compliance …

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a
relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in …

In this paper, we analyse the conditions under which the COVID‐19 pandemic will lead
either to social order (adherence to measures put in place by authorities to control the …

Accumulated evidence demonstrates the centrality of social psychology to the behavior of
members of the public as immediate responders in emergencies. Such public behavior is a …

The May 2015 release of the report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
highlighted a fundamental change in the issues dominating discussions about policing in …

This paper extends Tyler's procedural justice model of public compliance with the law.
Analysing data from a national probability sample of adults in England and Wales, we …

Accounts of the social meaning of policing and of the relationship between police and citizen
converge on the idea that police behaviour carries important identity-relevant information …

What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the
policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond …

Encounters with the criminal justice system shape people's perceptions of the legitimacy of
legal authorities, and the dominant explanatory framework for this relationship revolves …