Police empowerment and police militarisation in times of protracted conflict: Examining public perceptions in southern Somalia

Muibu, Daisy

doi:10.1080/10220461.2021.1924255

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“…Drawing on data collected in New York, Sunshine and Tyler (2003) examined two normative (procedural justice and police legitimacy) and three instrumental (police effectiveness, distributive justice, and risk of sanction) predictors of police empowerment. They found that police empowerment was primarily predicted by police legitimacy and procedural justice, and less so by instrumental factors 2 (see also Factor et al, 2014; McLean and Nix, 2021; Metcalfe and Hodge, 2018; Muibu, 2021; Pryce, 2019; Pryce and Grant, 2020).…”

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Empowering the police during COVID-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers?

Sargeant

McCarthy

Williamson³

et al. 2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article seeks to test the police ‘empowerment hypothesis’ to better understand public support for police powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, we draw on Australian survey data to compare the efficacy of the instrumental and normative models of police empowerment to enforce social distancing regulations. We find that instrumental concerns about risk dominate participants’ willingness to empower the police during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when it comes to what police can do to encourage police empowerment, procedural justice appears to be more important than police effectiveness, supporting the normative model. Our article adds to the limited but growing body of research that examines the correlates of police empowerment and the conditions under which members of the public are willing to grant police expanded powers.

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