... the influence of various types of police encounters and media literacy among Taiwanese citizens. The current empirical outcomes might also serve as a preliminary vehicle to support policies and practices that would improve perceptions of police legitimacy in an Asian context. Ming-Li Hsieh can be contacted...

...Shannon K. Jacobsen Purpose Given that previous research examining students’ perceptions of the legitimacy of the campus police (CP) has largely taken place on a single campus and utilized quantitative methods, the purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how community context shapes...

... examining the relationship between the legitimacy of the police and cooperation with the police. Using Tankebe's (2013) model of legitimacy as a multidimensional concept, this study examines the relationship between legitimacy and cooperation with the police in India. Design/methodology/approach...

...Gorazd Meško; Rok Hacin Purpose Police legitimacy presents a social value of the institution based on citizens' normative, moral and ethical feelings that they should voluntarily comply with and support the authority of the police. The present study focuses on residents' perceptions of police...

... with police officers is a form of rationalizing individual police misconduct that reinforced police legitimacy. Most participants had similar characteristics and displayed police justification. Additional research is needed regarding what characteristics or patterns are likely to lead to lower levels...

...Tammy Rinehart Kochel; Wesley G. Skogan Purpose This paper examines the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing's recommendation that police promote trust and legitimacy by creating a culture of transparency and accountability. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a panel...

... shape how people accept police use of force. Design/methodology/approach The authors use two online experiments to test whether different force options affected judgments about the acceptability of police action and to explore the role of trust and legitimacy in people's judgments. Findings...

...Paige S. Thompson; Bryce E. Peterson; Daniel S. Lawrence Purpose This paper explores community members' perceptions of the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD)'s body-worn camera (BWC) program, examining knowledge and support of the program and its impact on views of procedural justice and legitimacy...

...Richard K. Moule Jr; Megan M. Parry; Bryanna Fox Purpose The legitimacy crisis faced by law enforcement has been suggested to be the result of a new media environment where citizens can record encounters with police and place these recordings online. The purpose of this paper is to examine...

... copies of questionnaires administered, a sample of 386 was effectively returned (representing 50 percent response rate). Six categories of variables were analyzed. These are procedural justice, distributive justice, vigilante corps’ performance, legitimacy, residents’ satisfaction with vigilante corps...

...Robert E. Worden; Sarah J. McLean Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the “state of the art” in research on police legitimacy. The authors consider two bodies of theory and empirical research on police legitimacy: one rooted in social psychology and concerned with individual attitudes...

...Ben Bradford; Jenna Milani; Jonathan Jackson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which police legitimacy and social identity explain variation in public acceptance of police use of force. The authors assess whether there is an association between legitimacy and public...

.... The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Uncertainty Power Legitimacy Coercion This paper is concerned with the exercise of power in police custody suites in England [1] ; in particular, the focus is on forms of “soft” power...

... that influence police legitimacy and public trust. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Police-Community Interaction Survey (PCIS) developed by the National Police Research Platform. Design/methodology/approach The PCIS collected data from 53 police agencies around the USA in 2013-2014...

... this debate. Originality/value This paper suggests that empirical assessments of how militarization affects use of force and legitimacy will be valuable for informing the militarization debate. As scholars on both sides of the debate have suggested that militarization affect policing outcomes...

... police/community relations, and greater police legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach The manuscript describes a series of focus groups with community residents across three sites over 15-months after a drug market intervention. A repeated cross-sectional design enabled in-depth analysis of study...

...Melissa Thompson; Kimberly Barsamian Kahn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand whether mental health status – either alone or in conjunction with race – affects perceptions of police legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data collected from Portland, Oregon...

... provides a glimpse into the views of police leaders and the methods that they endorse. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Organization Legitimacy Leadership Police Middle-management Management Abraham Lincoln is one of the most revered American presidents. His assassination...

... making. In general, the body of research yields two main findings. First, citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice during interactions with the police positively affect their views of police legitimacy, satisfaction with police services, satisfaction with interaction disposition, trust in the police...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Management Police Police culture Legitimacy Organization Middle-management The effort to hire more minority, as well as women, police officers represents one of the longest-running law enforcement initiatives in the history of the field...