The impact of race/ethnicity, neighborhood context, and police/citizen interaction on residents' attitudes toward the police

YL Lai, JS Zhao - Journal of criminal justice, 2010 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to extend the current knowledge of public attitudes toward the
police. Independent variables derived from three models, the demographic, the …

Determinants of public confidence in police: An international perspective

H Jang, HJ Joo, JS Zhao - Journal of criminal justice, 2010 - Elsevier
Previous studies concerning public confidence in the police had primarily focused on
demographic, attitudinal, and contextual factors in the United States. Little research …

Explaining majority and minority trust in the police

M Van Craen - Justice quarterly, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This article tests the contribution that social capital theory, performance theory, and the
procedural justice-based model can make towards explaining the trust of majority and …

[BOOK][B] Fear and crime in Latin America: Redefining state-society relations

L Dammert - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored
by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may …

A comparative study of public support for the police

S Kutnjak Ivković - International criminal justice review, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
I use the data from the International Crime Victimization Survey and the World Values
Survey to study the determinants of public support for the police in 28 countries. I find that …

Shades of blue: Confidence in the police in the world

L Cao, YL Lai, R Zhao - Journal of criminal justice, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The present study tests the hypothesis that regime nature as a structural
characteristic explains variations in public confidence in the police. METHODS: Combining …

Trust in the police and the militarization of law enforcement in Latin America

HE Sung, J Capellan, B Barthuly - Comparing Police …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Modern civilian police in Latin America has transitioned from an authoritarian past to a
violent present. This institutional trajectory has evolved in the shadow of recurrent attempts …

Confidence in the police and the fear of crime in the develo** world

E Alda, RR Bennett, MS Morabito - Policing: An International Journal …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The determinants of the fear of crime have been extensively investigated over the
past three decades, yet few studies are comparative, include data from develo** countries …

The impact of political entity on confidence in legal authorities: A comparison between China and Taiwan

YL Lai, L Cao, JS Zhao - Journal of criminal justice, 2010 - Elsevier
The current study compared the public confidence in legal authorities in two different
political entities: China and Taiwan. Data from the 2005 World Values Surveys were used …

Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

M Van Craen, WG Skogan - European journal of criminology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The international literature contains very few empirical tests of Tyler's (2011) claim that in
Europe, as in the United States, procedural justice plays a larger part than police …