Future Research on Legitimacy and Its Measures

Blount‐Hill, Kwan‐Lamar; Gau, Jacinta M.

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“…Our subgroup analysis considering different approaches to measuring social identity suggests that relational identification with the police seems to be a less context-dependent predictor of police legitimacy, meaning that it could be more 'accurate' to consider, and measure, social identity as relational identification. However, it is also the case that there is consistent evidence of associations between police procedural justice and the strength of identification with more expansove categories, such as 'the community', or even 'the state' in a broader sense (Blount-Hill & Gau, 2022). In sum, it would seem that measures of both types of identity have a role to play, and future studies concerned with the mediating role of identity should consider including both.…”

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“…Rather than measuring identification with assumed shared social categories or the social group of police with a continuous scale, a small number of studies (e.g. Blount-Hill, 2020;Saulnier & Sivasubramaniam, 2021) consider respondents' perceptions of their relationship with the police in terms of whether police are perceived as the in-group authority or a (dominant) outgroup. Given that social identity is a complex and fluid concept to be studied, some rarer approaches to social identity are recognised but cannot be included in this review.…”

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts

Chan,

Bradford,

Stott

2023

J Exp Criminol

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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 synthesising data from 123 studies (N = 200,966) addressing the relationship between procedural justice and legitimacy in policing. Random effects univariate and two-stage structural equation modelling meta-analyses were performed. Results Both procedural justice and social identity are found to be significantly correlated with police legitimacy. Moreover, social identity significantly mediates, but does not moderate, the association between procedural justice and legitimacy. People of younger age and from more developed countries tend to correlate procedural justice stronger with police legitimacy. Conclusion This study demonstrates that social identity is an important antecedent of legitimacy and a critical factor in the dynamics of procedural fairness in policing. It also shows that the extent to which procedural justice and legitimacy are correlated varies across social groups and contexts. The theoretical implications of our findings are discussed.

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Section: Operationalization Of Social Identity In Studies Of Procedur...mentioning

confidence: 99%