Objectives To systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the
association between procedural justice and legitimacy in policing. Methods A meta-analysis …

Scholars have been critical of the gender-biased nature of policing, and its effects on service
delivery. They highlight how law enforcement is male-dominated, and how this impacts …

The police legitimacy literature is grounded predominantly in studies from the Global North.
In these contexts, technology and economic resources allow policing institutions to exercise …

Studies on policing in the Global South rarely discuss police self-evaluation of performance.
Furthermore, internal performance assessments usually reflect the perspectives of senior …

ABSTRACT Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face externally driven changes, including an
international human rights agenda. Tuvalu was the first PIC to develop a National Action …

Members of the public may have positive, negative, or mixed perceptions of police. Previous
research has demonstrated that public perceptions are shaped by their experiences and …

Issues and challenges are not uncommon to policing organisations across the globe. For
those in Pacific Islands countries and territories (PICTs), common issues such as functioning …

Although religious institutions are an important agent of non-state policing, especially in the
Global South, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between religion and …

The process-based model of policing, emphasizing procedural justice and police legitimacy,
has emerged as a key theoretical framework for understanding police-community relations …

The study aimed to answer what explains the perceived trustworthiness of female civil
servants in three South Asian countries using a country-representative survey (n= 6240; …