Procedural justice, minorities, and religiosity

Is It the What or the How? The Roles of High-Policing Tactics and Procedural Justice in Predicting Perceptions of Hostile Treatment: The Case of Security Checks at Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel

“…The strong relationship between procedural justice and police legitimacy is the main finding emerging from the literature, consistently replicated in different contexts and countries, including Israel, our study site (Factor et al ; Jonathan‐Zamir & Weisburd ). Nevertheless, it should be noted that some studies find variation in the relative importance of procedural justice versus instrumental considerations in predicting police legitimacy (e.g., Brockner et al ; Hinds & Murphy ; Tankebe ), while others criticize the measurement and operational definitions of key terms within this framework (Gau ; Maguire & Johnson ; Reisig et al ; Tankebe ).…”

Empowering the police to fight terrorism in Israel

“…In addition, there were several indirect effects through legitimacy (both trust and obligation to obey), suggesting that those who believed the police were procedurally just, effective in controlling crime, effective in maintaining homeland security, fair in the distribution of outcomes, and equal in services provided were more willing to empower the police because they viewed the police as legitimate. Many of the factors related to the empowerment to fight crime in prior research are also directly or indirectly related to the empowerment to fight terrorism in the current study (Factor et al, 2014;Sunshine and Tyler, 2003). In this way, terrorism is perceived in a similar fashion to crime, where the public is willing to legitimize police activities and give them the authority they need to handle terrorism as long as they are trustworthy, fair, and effective.…”

“…In accordance with this proposition, Factor et al (2014) and Sunshine and Tyler (2003) both found that police performance and distributive justice increase empowerment of the police by the public, directly and by increasing police legitimacy evaluations. As with legitimacy and procedural justice, studies focusing on performance and distributive justice in the counterterrorism context have mostly concentrated on cooperation with the police.…”

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses

“…The study will examine whether sentencing for hit‐and‐run offenses follows the general pattern of out‐group distrust, leading to harsher sentences for minority defendants in cases of cross‐racial/cross‐ethnic violent offenses, or whether judges in Israel evaluate violations of solidarity within an ethnic group—be it majority (Jews) or minority (Israeli‐Arabs)—more severely than violations of solidarity toward someone who is not part of the same ethnic group. Israel serves as an interesting case for studying this question since, on the one hand, Israel is a society deeply divided along ethnic lines (Factor et al ; Hasisi & Weitzer ; Hasisi ), and on the other, the ethos of social solidarity in Israeli society is very important (Almog ; Gur‐Arye ; Kaplan ).…”

“…Gur-Arye (2017) suggests that the increase in the maximum punishment reflects a moral panic about hit-and-run traffic offenses after several prominent cases. hand, Israel is a society deeply divided along ethnic lines (Factor et al 2014;Hasisi & Weitzer 2007;Hasisi 2008), and on the other, the ethos of social solidarity in Israeli society is very important (Almog 1997;Gur-Arye 2017;Kaplan 2008).…”