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 …

There is disproportionate risk for violence conditioned on inequities due to race,
socioeconomic status, gender, and where people live. Consequently, some communities are …

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law
related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

One of the biggest challenges facing modern policing in recent years has been the lack of
police legitimacy. The tipping point of this phenomenon is often attributed to the Rodney …

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 …

Research Summary We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men,
residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had …

Purpose There has been widespread speculation that the events surrounding the shooting
death of an unarmed young black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri—and …

What does good policing look like? At first blush, that question may conjure up images of
uniformed officers chatting with local residents, playing with laughing children while on …