Identity, Legitimacy and Making Sensee of Police Violence

Bradford, Ben; Milani, Jenna; Jackson, Jonathan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2793818

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“…In another corpus of research using experimental paradigms, participants have been presented with forceful actions that are divided, a priori, into justified and unjustified categories (Bradford, Milani, & Jackson, 2016; Gerber & Jackson, 2017). These studies tend to model associations between ratings of acceptability and individual-difference measures.…”

Section: Previous Research On Moral Evaluations Of Use Of Forcementioning

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Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Action severity scales.

Celestin

Kruschke

2019

Law and Human Behavior

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Portions of this work have been previously presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conferences (2017, 2018, 2019) and the associated pre-conferences on Justice and Morality and Law and Psychology. Additionally, separate analyses of these data are reported in a companion manuscript (Celestin & Kruschke, 2019). Although the two manuscripts are based on the same data, the analyses are (a) mathematically different and (b) focus on very different aspects of the models. The latent severity scales reported here remain essentially unchanged when using more elaborate models, so we present the most parsimonious model here in order to maximize the clarity of the latent scale derivation and the implications of those results.

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Section: Previous Research On Moral Evaluations Of Use Of Forcementioning

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Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Action severity scales.

Celestin

Kruschke

2019

Law and Human Behavior

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“…This is a similar finding to that of Jackson et al (2013) who tracked media coverage of policing events and Londoners’ public confidence in policing over a three year period that included several scandals. These findings suggest that policing scandals do not have a simple unfiltered impact on public opinion (see, for example, Bradford et al, 2016; Harkin, 2015: 52), something that extends beyond policing into prisons (Mancini and Mears, 2012) and beyond. For example, Jackson and Brammer (2014: 156) explore how firms’ negative acts can ‘fail to provoke reputational sanctions and may coexist with persistent good reputations’.…”

Section: Case Study: the Phone-hacking Business And The Leveson Inquirymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…These findings suggest that policing scandals do not have a simple unfiltered impact on public opinion (see, e.g., Harkin, 2015:52;Bradford et al, 2016), something that extends beyond policing into prisons (Mancini and Mears 2012) …”

Section: Scandal and Leveson Consideredmentioning

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“…This effect works better to maintain an organization’s reputation if a failure concerns the inability to deliver services, rather than a failure of integrity; that is, a scandal. Crises rooted in integrity failures are perceived as more serious and take longer to recover from than competence failures as they impact on trust that needs to be rebuilt (though see Bradford et al’s (2016) analysis of the use of force by the police). At the Leveson Inquiry, the police were challenged across both dimensions; the decision making on Caryatid raised questions of both competence and integrity.…”

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A question of scandal? The police and the phone-hacking business

Mawby

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Scandals have featured consistently in the development and operation of public policing in England and Wales. However, criminologists have rarely explored scandal as a concept or its attempted management by criminal justice organisations. This article contributes to the filling of this gap with the intention of initiating debate on the utility of scandal as a conceptual tool for the analysis of policing and criminal justice. It identifies the core components of a scandal using an analytical framework informed by scandal research undertaken across disciplinary areas. Taking a case study approach, this framework is applied to the Leveson Inquiry which explored a combination of potentially scandalous episodes within the overarching scandal of phone-hacking. The article concludes that phone-hacking was a scandal at macro and micro levels under this framework yet damage to the reputation of the police was mitigated through active impression management and enduring characteristics of the police image.

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“…Among some audiences – typically those who define as ‘law-abiding citizens’ – the promise of policing has powerfully to do with serving and protecting ‘us’ from those defined as unwanted or dangerous to others (Harkin, 2015). This affective identification with the police as the source and symbol of order may mean that such citizens fail to attend to, deny, or even endorse, abuses of police power directed at members of denigrated or neglected out-groups (Belur, 2009, 2010; Bradford et al, 2016).…”

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A Question of Sacrifice: The Deep Structure of Deaths in Police Custody

Loader

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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Deaths in police custody present a set of enduring and troubling puzzles. Why do such deaths seldom result in prosecutions or adequate redress? Why are victims’ families so under-resourced and typically met with a conflicted mix of empathy and hostility? Why do acknowledged problems remain unresolved despite review after review making the same criticisms and seemingly consensual recommendations? Why is the state’s failure to fulfil its duty of care towards those it detains met with public indifference? In this article, I argue that we can shed new light on these questions if we theorize and investigate police power using the metaphor of sacrifice. Thinking about police power through this lens enables us to identify and illuminate a conflict between the liberal rationality that appears to govern responses to custodial deaths and the illiberal values and affects that constitute what I term the deep structure of deaths in police custody. By re-examining reports of recent enquiries into the issue, I outline four recurring elements of this deep structure and show how they clash with surface liberal rationalities. The systemic reduction of custodial death requires, I conclude, that we name and contest the quasi-sacred conception of police authority that holds the police vital to the production of order and control and its agents to require protection when things ‘go wrong’.

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Identity, Legitimacy and Making Sensee of Police Violence

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Action severity scales.

Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Action severity scales.

A question of scandal? The police and the phone-hacking business

A Question of Sacrifice: The Deep Structure of Deaths in Police Custody

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