Perceived police fairness: exploring the determinants of citizens’ perceptions of procedural fairness in Ghana

Boateng, Francis D.

doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1632311

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“…For example, in their study, using a random sample of 1,681 residents of a metropolitan city, Nix, et al (2015) found that procedural justice evaluations are a primary source of trust in the police. Also, Boateng (2020) examined factors affecting citizens’ perceptions of police procedural fairness. He found that citizens’ assessments of police fairness are largely driven by their experiences with the police, views about police effectiveness, levels of trust in the police, and their own individual characteristics.…”

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Pandemic Policing and Community Engagement: Preparedness, Legitimacy and Public Support During the COVID-19 Crisis in Nigeria

Aborisade

Adeleke

2022

Criminal Justice Review

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This study brings to the fore, insights into three key factors that had been widely noted to play significant roles in driving effective pandemic policing. These are the preparedness of the police as first responders to a public health crisis, the level of public trust in the police as a legitimate power holder, and community engagement as a tool to drive public support and participation in fighting COVID-19. Using the Nigeria police as a case study, with the damning reports of abuse of power and other misconduct, this study examined how the police responded to COVID-19 mandates and community participation. Interviews with 40 police officers who enforced the COVID-19 lockdown, 16 senior police officers, and 18 community leaders within Lagos and Ogun states were conducted, and a thematic analysis of the narratives was carried out. Findings indicated that community engagement was not effectively deployed by the Nigerian police in the course of pandemic policing. This was due to a lack of police preparedness, over-reliance on the use of force for public control, public distrust in the police, and a lack of prior practice of community engagement by the police. Public distrust in the police was found to be central to peoples’ disobedience to COVID-19 rules which worsened police-community relations, culminating in protests against the police and its formations. These findings have important policy and practical implications if police legitimacy and post-COVID police-community relations are to improve.

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Pandemic Policing and Community Engagement: Preparedness, Legitimacy and Public Support During the COVID-19 Crisis in Nigeria

Aborisade

Adeleke

2022

Criminal Justice Review

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“…Numerous pieces of research suggest that whilst police officers share a collective identity under the label 'police', this group identity is only relevant when being projected outward toward citizens [3,11,41,46,[65][66][67]. The outward projection of a collective group identity enables police to differentiate themselves from citizens, thereby enabling police to categorize non-group members either by their non-employment as police officers or (in the case of many diverse groups of people) classify civilians as outgroup members due to differences in identity, which mark them as being different to majority group members [3,11,46,66].…”

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“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

Miles-Johnson

Fay‐Ramirez

2022

Societies

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Across the globe, there is little research that examines the impact of diversity on police practice, particularly whether it increases or decreases the competency of the police organization or whether police officers perceive diversity within the organization and the addition of diverse officers as positive or negative. Contributing new findings to the extant policing literature, this research analyzes data collected from interviews with forty-six constables working in one of the largest Australian state police organizations. Contributing five key findings regarding diversity and inclusion in policing, this research suggests that lack of acceptance of diversity broadly, and bias towards diverse identified officers, results in the exclusion of officers, and a workforce that is fragmented. The lack of unification constables in this research have with diverse colleagues is concerning given that a cohesive police team increases the safety of all officers, improves the effectiveness of police response, strengthens the communication between police and citizens (as well as communication within the organization), increases the morale of officers, and will support the legitimacy of the organization. Whilst constables in this study were not asked questions about their own implicit or explicit levels of bias towards members of diverse groups, the unsolicited responses from many of the constables, as well as the recognition of Whiteness in terms of the racial identity of many officers within the organization, suggests that constables in this study are biased towards officers that are not part of the majority group.

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“…Thus, the findings of the present research align with a broad base of social psychological theory and research, in which trust occupies a central role in shaping perceptions of interpersonal interactions and relationships. The central tenets of Tyler and Lind’s (1992) relational model led us to expect that preexisting trust in police would impact an individual’s perception of that encounter; however, previous research in policing had not sufficiently investigated whether preexisting trust in police shapes individuals’ perceptions of their encounters with police (Boateng, 2019; Goldsmith, 2005), and no previous research had examined the ways in which preexisting trust might interact with BWC presence to affect perceptions of procedural justice. Our data demonstrated the critical importance of the core relational variable of trust, even in this technologically mediated interaction between police officer and citizen.…”

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International perspectives on procedural justice: Trust and respect matter even when body-worn cameras are present.

Sivasubramaniam¹,

Burke²,

Saulnier³

et al. 2021

Law and Human Behavior

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Objective(s): We assessed the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs) in two countries on perceptions of everyday encounters with police, independent of officer respectfulness and participants' preexisting trust in police. Hypotheses: We expected BWC presence, officer respectfulness, and preexisting trust in police to all significantly improve individuals' perceptions of a police encounter. We also expected interactions indicating that BWC presence and preexisting trust in police reduce the effect of officer respectfulness on perceptions of the encounter. Method: In each of three experimental studies, we measured participants' preexisting trust in police, and then presented participants with a vignette describing an encounter with a police officer in which officer respectfulness (respectful, disrespectful) and the presence/disclosure of a BWC (absent, present and disclosed by officer, present but undisclosed by officer) were independently manipulated. In Studies 1 (N = 422, M age = 29 years, 73% women, 68% Australian) and 2 (N = 210, M age = 19 years, 64% women, 59% Hispanic) in Australia and the United States, respectively, participants assumed the role of the driver in a traffic stop as they read the vignette. In study 3 (N = 504, M age = 29 years, 72% women, 34% English), participants in Australia assumed the role of a citizen interacting with a police officer enforcing COVID-related restrictions. Participants then recorded their perceptions of procedural justice of and satisfaction with the encounter, legitimacy of the police, and willingness to co-operate with police. Results: Across three studies and two countries, we found no support for the notion that BWC presence influenced people's perceptions of police-citizen interactions independent of officer respectfulness and preexisting trust. Conclusion:The effect of BWC presence, established in prior research, might operate via its effect on offi-

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Perceived police fairness: exploring the determinants of citizens’ perceptions of procedural fairness in Ghana

Cited by 14 publications

References 54 publications

Pandemic Policing and Community Engagement: Preparedness, Legitimacy and Public Support During the COVID-19 Crisis in Nigeria

Pandemic Policing and Community Engagement: Preparedness, Legitimacy and Public Support During the COVID-19 Crisis in Nigeria

“Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

International perspectives on procedural justice: Trust and respect matter even when body-worn cameras are present.

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