Compliance and Legal Authority

Jackson, Jonathan; Tyler, Tom R.; Hough, Mike; Bradford, Ben; Mentovich, Avital

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.86011-0

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“…Studies show that when people feel a greater duty to support and obey an authority's decisions, they comply more readily (e.g., see Jackson et al, 2015;Murphy, 2008;Murphy et al, 2016;Tyler, 2006). Duty to support and obey authorities is generally developed from a young age through a process of legal socialisation (Tyler & Trinkner, 2017).…”

Section: Why Do People Comply With Laws?: a Criminology Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In sum, compliance behaviour is motivated by a combination of demographic, instrumental and normative factors. However, criminological research consistently reveals that normative, not instrumental, factors tend to dominate people's decisions to comply with laws, even after controlling for demographic differences (e.g., Jackson et al, 2015;Murphy et al, 2016;Tyler, 2006).…”

Section: Why Do People Comply With Laws?: a Criminology Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our findings align with prior criminological research that shows that normative concerns, not instrumental concerns, are generally more important for fostering people’s intrinsic motivation to obey laws. Specifically, the criminology literature shows that duty to support and obey authorities is key to understanding why people obey laws voluntarily (Jackson et al., 2015; Tyler, 2006). The legal socialisation literature explains why this is so.…”

Section: Implications For Scholarship and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Intrinsic feelings of duty to support authorities are especially important in contexts where directives or laws are unpopular (Jackson et al., 2015). COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, for example, abruptly and significantly curtailed the freedoms of everyday citizens.…”

Section: Implications For Scholarship and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?

Murphy

Williamson

Sargeant

et al. 2020

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) a global pandemic. At the time of writing, over 16 million cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed worldwide, and more than 650,000 people had died from the virus. A priority amongst governments globally is limiting the spread of the virus. In Australia, this response included mandatory ‘lockdown’ restrictions which limited citizens’ freedom of movement. This article uses survey data from 1595 Australians to examine compliance with COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the early stages of the pandemic. Results revealed that a substantial number of Australians did not comply fully with the measures. Further, while self-interest and health concerns motivated compliance, normative concerns regarding duty to support the authorities dominated compliance decisions. The findings’ implications for both compliance research and for authorities wanting to nurture voluntary compliance with public health orders are discussed.

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Section: Why Do People Comply With Laws?: a Criminology Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Do People Comply With Laws?: a Criminology Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Scholarship and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Scholarship and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?

Murphy

Williamson

Sargeant

et al. 2020

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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129

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“…According to Tyler (1990), people are less likely to support, cooperate with, and obey authorities who lack legitimacy in their eyes. Indeed, studies that examined the factors that affect police legitimacy found that the most influential variable that predicts police legitimacy is “procedural justice,” meaning the sense among citizens that they have been treated in a fair and unbiased way by the police (Hinds & Murphy, 2007; Jackson, Tyler, Hough, Bradford, & Mentovich, 2013; Jonathan-Zamir & Weisburd, 2013; National Research Council, 2004; Reisig, Bratton, & Gertz, 2007; Tyler, Schulhofer, & Huq, 2010).…”

Section: Legitimacy In Correctionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

For Prisoners, “Work Works”: Qualitative Findings From an Israeli Program

et al. 2017

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The study's purpose was to assess the contribution of the Work Release Program of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to the processes of prisoners' rehabilitation. We interviewed 22 serving and released prisoners who participated in the program at two prisons in central Israel. Most respondents were positive toward the core components of the program, mainly the work outside the prison. Responses also indicated that the program eased their transition from prison life to life outside. However, some respondents criticized the way in which the program was operated. The article discusses the program's strengths and weaknesses, and proposes some improvements.

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Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment

Jonathan-Zamir,

Perry,

Kaplan-Damary

et al. 2024

J Exp Criminol

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Objectives Test the effects of police compliance with the restrictions on their authority embedded in Social Contract Theory (SCT) on police legitimacy, satisfaction with the police, and willingness to obey police officers. Methods A two-stage vignette experiment. In the first, 1356 participants were randomly assigned to one of four study conditions: control, procedural justice (PJ), police performance (PP), and compliance with the social contract (SC). In the follow-up stage, 660 participants were randomly assigned to either a control or proportionality/least restrictive alternative (PL) condition. Results Compared to the control condition, the SC manipulation improved evaluations of all three dependent variables. For legitimacy, its effect was no different than that of PJ and PP. For satisfaction, it was similar to that of PP and stronger than the effect of PJ. For willingness to obey, it was no different than the effect of PJ, but stronger than that of PP. The second stage of the experiment revealed that compared to the control condition, the two unique components of the SC model (PL) significantly improved the scores of all three DVs. Conclusions Police adherence to the SC, and particularly to its two unique components, is an important determinant of police legitimacy and other outcomes, and should thus be acknowledged by researchers and practitioners. Future research is encouraged to disentangle the relative effects of the “building blocks” making up PJ, PP, and compliance with the SC.

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Compliance and Legal Authority

Cited by 15 publications

References 48 publications

Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?

Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?

For Prisoners, “Work Works”: Qualitative Findings From an Israeli Program

Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment

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