Legal Socialization in Brazil: Examining the Generalizability of the Procedural Justice Model

Trinkner, Rick; Rodrigues, Herbert; Piccirillo, Debora; Gifford, Faith E.; Gomes, Aline Morais Mizutani

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“…Kaiser and Reisig (), for example, found that individual characteristics such as impulse control, moral disengagement, and emotional regulation were more strongly related to between‐ and within‐individual variation in legal cynicism than to legitimacy. Similarly, some scholars have found a stronger associations between legal cynicism and self‐reported offending compared with measures of police legitimacy (see Augustyn, ; Fagan & Piquero, ; Reisig et al., ; but see Kaiser & Reisig, ; Trinkner et al., ).…”

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“…Voice, however, only marginally reduced evaluations of legal cynicism, whereas impartiality had no association with cynicism. Among a sample of adolescents in Brazil, Trinkner and colleagues () found that direct experiences with the police significantly influenced police legitimacy via perceptions of procedural justice. Police contact and procedural justice, however, were not related to legal cynicism.…”

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“…“Cynicism about the law,” also known as “legal corruption” (Gifford & Reisig, ), reflects the perception that the law is a tool used by elites to maintain power and control (Johnson et al., ; Tyler & Huo, ). We focus here on the definition and operationalization of legal cynicism by Sampson and Bartusch (), given its prominence in both the neighborhood‐ and the individual‐level research literature on legal attitudes (Fagan & Tyler, ; Fine & Cauffman, ; Gifford & Reisig, ; Kaiser & Reisig, ; Nivette et al., ; Trinkner & Cohn, ; Trinkner, Rodrigues, Piccirillo, Gifford, & Gomes, ).…”

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Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood

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In different theoretical traditions, negative social conditions, attachments, and interactions shape the way individuals view the law and its agents. Although most researchers acknowledge the conceptual distinction between different legal attitudes such as legal cynicism and police legitimacy, it remains unclear to what extent these attitudes stem from the same social sources. In the current study, therefore, we evaluate the social and individual factors that influence trajectories of legal cynicism and police legitimacy using a diverse community sample of youths in Zurich, Switzerland. Latent growth curve models were employed to examine patterns of change in legal cynicism and police legitimacy between 13 and 20 years of age. The findings show that legal cynicism and police legitimacy both decline into early adulthood and exhibit high rank-stability over time. Furthermore, we find that legal cynicism is closely related to individual characteristics that reflect one's inability to recognize or abide by their internal rules. By contrast, police legitimacy is shaped by socialization influences, particularly teacher bonds andThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…The Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics (IBOPE) was responsible for the data collection. For further information on SPLSS design, sampling, and administration, see Trinkner et al (2019).…”

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“…This conception is put forward by researchers such as Tom Tyler, who have been demonstrating with several empirical studies that the lack of legitimacy is one of the main predictors of rule-violating behavior. In essence, the more people believe the police authority is legitimate, the more they believe they must obey them and, consequently, the more they will be willing to respect those authorities, and even to cooperate with daily police work (Fagan and Tyler 2005;Trinkner et al 2019).…”

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Contacts with Police Officers and Changes in Police Legitimacy Perceptions Among Brazilian Adolescents Over Time

Komatsu¹,

Theodoro²,

Chies-Santos³

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Int. ann. criminol.

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Growing research indicates that police legitimacy is a strong predictor of whether people behave respecting or violating rules. Perceptions of legitimacy are an output of socializing processes through which individuals develop their values and orientations toward authorities and the legal system. Legal socialization studies show that encounters with legal authorities are critical “teachable moments” in this process. The present study verifies whether direct or vicarious negative contacts with police officers affect changes in the perception of the legitimacy of police authority by adolescents over time. The adolescents were classified according to whether or not they had witnessed or experienced any negative contact or experience with the police during the period before the interview, composing two group trajectories at the first wave, four at the second wave, and eight at the third wave. Then the trajectories were compared in terms of the extent to which they agree with statements about police legitimacy, allowing the quantification of changes of opinion after negative contacts with the police. Results show that three main factors diminish the perception of police legitimacy: having negative contact with the police; having more than one negative contact; and having a recent negative contact. These findings have important implications for police patrolling and approach strategies.

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Legal Socialization in Brazil: Examining the Generalizability of the Procedural Justice Model

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Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood

Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood

Contacts with Police Officers and Changes in Police Legitimacy Perceptions Among Brazilian Adolescents Over Time

The Political Consequences of State Action on Violence Against Women

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