Procedural justice perceptions, legitimacy beliefs, and compliance with the law: a meta-analysis

Walters, Glenn D.; Bolger, P. Colin

doi:10.1007/s11292-018-9338-2

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“…By far the strongest concurrent influence on legal cynicism was low self‐control, which indicates that legal cynicism is more closely related to one's willingness or ability to obey internalized norms than social influences and attachments . This finding contrasts with findings reported in broader neighborhood‐ and individual‐level literature that demonstrate a robust and strong relationship between social experiences, attachments, and criminal justice attitudes (see for reviews Mazerolle et al., ; Walters & Bolger, ), as well as original conceptions of legal cynicism as a product of social disadvantage and injustice (Kirk & Papachristos, ; Sampson & Bartusch, ). Our findings reveal that experiences and perceptions of police play at best a minimal role in shaping cynicism toward the law within a community sample.…”

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“…Contact with the criminal justice system in adolescence and early adulthood has been shown to increase significantly the likelihood of future criminal behavior and imprisonment (Johnson, Simons, & Conger, ; McAra & McVie, ; Slocum & Wiley, ). Researchers, however, have argued that it is not the contact itself but the quality of interpersonal treatment (e.g., procedural justice) in police–citizen encounters that influences legal attitudes (Hinds & Murphy, ; Maguire et al., ; Slocum & Wiley, ; Tyler, ; Tyler & Huo, ; Walters & Bolger, ).…”

Section: Legal Attitudinal Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2019

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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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Section: Legal Attitudinal Developmentmentioning

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

2019

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“…Generally, we know that people's perceptions of the legal system matters. The more fair and just people view the lawmaking and enforcement process, the more likely they will comply with its rules (Walters and Bolger 2019). However, in this study, we do not find a significant correlation between normative obligation to obey the law and procedural justice.…”

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confidence: 85%

Why Did Israelis Comply with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures During the Initial First Wave Lockdown?

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This paper investigates why Israeli citizens complied with measures taken to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus in early April. At the time, Israel had relatively stringent mitigation measures that encouraged people to stay at home and keep a safe social distance. The data of 411 adult participants, gathered using survey research, showed that overall, compliance levels at that time were high. It finds that compliance depended on a combination of moral factors, such as people's moral duty to obey the law and people's tendency to obey the law generally. In addition, people who had friends over 75 years old were more likely to comply. Furthermore, people were more likely to comply if they were able to do so, and less likely to violate if they did not have the opportunity to do so. The study did not find that fear of punishment (deterrence) was significantly associated with compliance. Overall, these findings are in line with studies conducted the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Notes: This working paper offers a first look at the data collected before developing it into a fully theorized publication. It has not yet been peer reviewed. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. published studies have analysed compliance with COVID-19 measures in early April, focusing on the United States ("US"), The United Kingdom ("UK"), and the Netherlands. Their findings showed that compliance levels were generally high in early April. They further showed that compliance did not rely on deterrence or threat of enforcement. Rather, compliance depended on people's individual characteristics and the situation they were in. In particular, people showed greater compliance when they had better impulse control (Netherlands and US), when they were better able to stay at home or keep a social distance, and when they lacked of opportunity to break the rules (most clearly in the US and Netherlands). On the other hand, intrinsic motivation also influenced compliance in these three countries. People were more likely to comply when they perceived greater obligation to obey the law (UK and Netherlands), when they saw many others complying (US and Netherlands), when they morally thought people should obey the measures (US and Netherlands), or were more afraid of the disease (Netherlands only). The present study analyses what shaped compliance in Israel. It offers data that helps understand compliance with the COVID-19 measures in Israel. The study answers two crucial questions in relation to these mitigation measures. First, it studies to what extent people have complied with the measures taken. Second, it analyses which factors have played a role in shaping people's compliance. The study thus adds a fourth country to our series of studies and further expands our understanding of compliance with mitigation measures during the first wave of the virus. Israel presents an interesting case to study compliance for several reasons. First, it has a longer history of dealing with national safety threats, and...

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“…Procedural justice judgements among the general public concerning how legal officials exercise their authority have been linked to a number of desirable outcomes – police legitimacy, cooperating with the police, and obeying laws – that can help to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system (see Donner, Maskaly, Fridell, & Jennings, ; Tankebe, ; Walters & Bolger, ). Consistent with classic policing scholarship (Reiss, ), contemporary research demonstrates that police actions that embody the principles of procedural justice (e.g., participation, neutrality, and trustworthy motives) are beneficial during police–citizen encounters (Maguire, Lowrey, & Johnson, ; McCluskey, Mastrofski, & Parks, ; Tyler & Huo, ).…”

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Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

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Reisig

2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Role congruity theory suggests that gender-based stereotypes can result in female police officers paying a higher price (i.e., viewed as less legitimate) relative to male officers for mistreating people. The invariance thesis posits that the effect of (un)fair treatment by legal authorities on legal attitudes and beliefs is stable across situations, time, and space.This study tested the invariance thesis by assessing whether the effect of procedural injustice on police legitimacy differed across officer gender. A factorial vignette survey that consisted of two types of citizen-initiated police encounters was administered to a university-based sample (N = 525).The results showed that the effect of procedural injustice had a powerful and significant influence on participants' legitimacy perceptions. These effects were consistent regardless of whether the treatment was doled out by a male or a female police officer. The findings provide support for the invariance thesis.

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Procedural justice perceptions, legitimacy beliefs, and compliance with the law: a meta-analysis

Cited by 224 publications

References 79 publications

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

Why Did Israelis Comply with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures During the Initial First Wave Lockdown?

Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

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