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 …

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year,
twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is …

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 …

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 …

Policing research and theory emphasises the importance of supportive relationships
between police and the communities they serve in increasing police effectiveness in …

We test three different conceptual models—“experience with police,”“quality of life,” and
“neighborhood context”—for directional accuracy and ability to explain satisfaction with the …

Purpose While there has been a sizeable amount of research on identifying the correlates of
citizen satisfaction with police agencies, that research has not been synthesized to identify …

Nearly every study of police corruption hypothesizes that public experience of police
corruption undermines the moral standing of the police. However, scarcely any studies …

This article examines the relationship between confidence in the police and concern about
crime. A large body of research on opinions about police treats confidence in the police as a …

The purpose of this study was to extend the current knowledge of public attitudes toward the
police. Independent variables derived from three models, the demographic, the …