This article reviews the international evidence on the potential nature, sources, and
consequences of police and legal legitimacy. In brief, I find that procedural justice is the …

In a fascinating study into the nature of police legitimacy in Southern China, Sun et al.(2018)
present evidence that what researchers have previously been treated as possible sources of …

While procedural justice theory has become the dominant paradigm in thinking about police
legitimacy, it has several important weaknesses. First, procedural justice's conceptually …

With the emergence of police legitimacy as a major indicator of good policing, scholars have
continued to push our conceptual understanding of this construct. In recent years, a debate …

Employing a 2 (accepting crisis accountability vs denying crisis accountability) x 2 (high vs
low information substantiality) x 2 (high vs low participation) online experiment (N= 293), this …

Objectives: Democratic policing involves an ongoing dialogue between officers and citizens
about what it means to wield legitimate authority. Most of the criminological literature on …

We review the concepts of legitimacy, trust, and legal cynicism in the context the debate
about police legitimacy, discuss the extent to which these concepts relate to each other, and …

Objectives To test whether normative and non-normative forms of obligation to obey the
police are empirically distinct and to assess whether they exhibit different dynamics in terms …

Legitimacy is fundamental to business internationalization and access to new markets. This
variable is particularly important for emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) as they face …

Renowned criminologist Mike Hough illuminates the principles and practices of good
policing in this important analysis of the police service's legitimacy and the factors, such as …