The Effects of Justice Judgments on Police Legitimacy Across Urban Neighborhoods: A Test of the Invariance Thesis

Reisig, Michael D.; Flippin, Michaela; Meško, Gorazd; Trinkner, Rick

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“…6 , 7 Many of the existing analyses of the ASEP have adopted this approach; we follow this to remain consistent. Additionally, many articles in the fields of criminology and legal socialization research also utilize such techniques to compare differences between sub-groups of a sample (e.g., Augustyn, 2015;Brown & Reisig, 2019;Intravia et al, 2018;Reisig et al, 2021;Weerman & Hoeve, 2012).…”

Section: Analytical Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceiving teachers as procedurally just limits the negative effects of delinquent peer associations: An analysis of Australian adolescent boys’ and girls’ perceptions of school authority

Cardwell

Mazerolle

Luengen

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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This research addressed whether perceptions of antisocial peers play a role in shaping individual perceptions of the legitimacy of school authority figures in young people. Using data from a sample of 102 young people from Brisbane, Australia, who participated in the Ability School Engagement Program, we examined whether associating with peers who engage in antisocial behavior was related to perceptions of the legitimacy of school authority over time. Mixed-effects linear regression analyses indicated that associations with antisocial peers were related to poorer perceptions of school authority over a 2-year period.We also found that antisocial peer associations had a bigger impact on perceptions of school legitimacy for girls compared to boys. These relationships, however, were not statistically significant when perceptions of school procedural justice were controlled for, suggesting the important role of school procedural justice in shaping perceptions of school legitimacy, even among young people who associate with more antisocial peers.

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Section: Analytical Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceiving teachers as procedurally just limits the negative effects of delinquent peer associations: An analysis of Australian adolescent boys’ and girls’ perceptions of school authority

Cardwell

Mazerolle

Luengen

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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“…At the same time, they note that youth who reside in more violent neighborhoods also show marked decreases in police legitimacy over time, while higher fear of victimization increases police legitimacy. These findings underscore the need to spend more time considering the role of social ecology in the legal socialization process (see e.g., Reisig et al, 2020).…”

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Celebrating 50 years of legal socialization

Trinkner

Reisig

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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This article presents the 2021 JSI special issue on legal socialization, which we planned to celebrate the legal socialization scholarship that was largely initiated by a special issue of JSI (1971, Vol. 27, Issue 2) published 50 years ago. In its broadest sense, legal socialization refers to the process by which people develop their relationship with the law. Undergirding this process is the acquisition, formation, and development of legal values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. This intellectual tradition rests on four pillars-foundationality, reciprocity, ubiquity, and continuity-that provide order to a field of study where scholars are trained in different disciplines, employ different methodologies, and pursue different questions involving people's relationship with the law. Much like in 1971, today many people are questioning the role of law in society, its purpose, its function, its history, and its efficacy.It is more important than ever to understand how people develop their orientation toward this social institution and the influence of that orientation on legal behavior. This issue features an eclectic group of scholars and a broad array of legal socialization research. This body of scholarship is intended to push the boundaries of the field both theoretically and in scope. This introduction situates each article within the rich historical tradition of legal socialization.

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“…Original conceptualizations of procedural justice theory (Lind & Tyler, 1988; Tyler, 1997; Tyler & Lind, 1992) incorporated both relational and instrumental motivations for compliance, and more recent work has also discussed the interplay between relational and instrumental motivation within procedural justice theory (Jackson et al, 2021; Reisig et al, 2020; Trinkner, 2019). On this account, which type of motivation is most important depends on the dynamics of the authority–subordinate relationship and the context of a given situation.…”

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Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness.

Kyprianides¹,

Bradford²,

Jackson³

et al. 2022

Law and Human Behavior

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Objective: We conducted an exploratory study testing procedural justice theory with a novel population. We assessed the extent to which police procedural justice, effectiveness, legitimacy, and perceived risk of sanction predict compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness.Hypotheses: We did not develop formal a priori hypotheses but examined five general research questions. (1) Are there positive associations between police procedural justice, police legitimacy, and compliance? (2) Do procedural justice and legitimacy differentially predict compliance depending on the particular type of offending? (3) Are there positive associations between police effectiveness, perceived risk of sanction and compliance? (4) Does the perceived risk of sanction differentially predict compliance depending on the particular type of offending? (5) Are there positive associations between moral judgements about the different offending behaviors and compliance?Method: Two-hundred people (87% male, 49% aged between 45-64, 37% white British) experiencing homelessness on the streets of an inner London borough completed a survey that included measures of procedural justice, police legitimacy, perceived risk of sanction, morality, and compliance.Results: (1 & 2) Procedural justice and police legitimacy were only weakly (and not significantly) associated with any of the three types of compliance (compliance with low-level crimes, behaviors specific to the street population, and high-level crimes). (3 & 4) Police effectiveness positively predicted compliance via perceived risk of sanction, but only for the kind of street population specific offenses that can be important for survival on the streets such as begging and sleeping in certain localities. ( 5) Morality was positively associated with all three types of compliance behaviors. Supplementary analyses suggested a small amount of instability in the results however, possibly because of the relatively small sample size.

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The Effects of Justice Judgments on Police Legitimacy Across Urban Neighborhoods: A Test of the Invariance Thesis

Cited by 33 publications

References 56 publications

Perceiving teachers as procedurally just limits the negative effects of delinquent peer associations: An analysis of Australian adolescent boys’ and girls’ perceptions of school authority

Perceiving teachers as procedurally just limits the negative effects of delinquent peer associations: An analysis of Australian adolescent boys’ and girls’ perceptions of school authority

Celebrating 50 years of legal socialization

Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness.

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