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 …

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 …

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 …

In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest
community policing initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here provides the first comprehensive …

The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both
individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical …

Policing in America, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing
today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as …

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 …

The existing literature of community policing was silent on the linkage between police
performance and confidence in the police. This study argued that broader measures of …