This article reviews the international evidence on the potential nature, sources, and
consequences of police and legal legitimacy. In brief, I find that procedural justice is the …

Evidence on how hot spot policing affects community members' views of police is very
limited and inconclusive. Scholars have thus called for further study of community attitudes …

The invariance thesis of police legitimacy argues that, regardless of individual differences,
the more citizens perceive police as procedurally just and effective, the more they will see …

Objective: Concerns about excessive police force are an understudied but real emotional
health problem facing residents of high-crime communities. Theoretical perspectives on …

Objective: Anderson's (1999)“code of the street”(CoS) framework posits that exposure to
violence (ETV) is linked to violent offending through youth adopting the CoS. This study …

Extensive research has been conducted in Western countries on the impact of police
effectiveness and how it influences citizens' perceptions and attitudes toward police …

Objectives The current study develops a methodology to identify spatially relevant buffer
sizes for micro-place evaluation research. It applies this methodology in an examination of …

Objectives We examine satisfaction with the police at micro places using data from citizen
surveys conducted in 2001, 2009 and 2014 in one city. We illustrate the utility of this …

The dark figures of crime are occurrences that, by some criteria, are called crime yet that are
not registered in the official statistics. According to several studies, only a few rapes are …

Anchored on the social exchange theory, this study investigated citizens' perception of
police misconduct on satisfaction with police through the mediating influence of confidence …