The rural areas in Nigeria have become notorious with all kinds of crime. Inadequate
amenities such as good roads and communication infrastructure in rural areas in Nigeria …

Most victims' cases are not progressed through the criminal justice system, which is a
phenomenon linked to low satisfaction with police performance. Little is known about how …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments restricted community members'
activities and, in turn, patterns of human behavior, both legal and illegal, changed. In many …

Little attention has been paid to views of the police among sexual assault survivors.
Understanding views of the police among a large population of crime victims who have …

Several highly publicized incidents have drawn the public's attention to the problem of rural
crime in Canada, and this focus is appropriate given that rates of rural crime in most …

Although a common maxim among many practitioners argues that police departments
should recruit their way out of the African American confidence race gap by hiring more …

The issue of police legitimacy has increasingly occupied the attention of criminologists in the
new millennium. Yet the study of police legitimacy is not without some controversies. This …

Despite growing interest in public confidence in criminal justice, robust confidence
measures have not yet been established. Two studies were conducted to develop …

In this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units
(Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora–UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018),“pacification” …

Purpose Public willingness to obey the law is partially determined by their satisfaction levels
with police job performance. Although numerous studies have researched determinants of …