Shared Race/Ethnicity With Police and Male Offenders’ Self-Regulating Beliefs: Exploring the Salience of Instrumental and Normative Factors for Securing Obedience

Abstract

This study examines the impact of shared race/ethnicity with police on male offenders’ perceptions of voice, procedural justice, and obligation to obey. In addition to exploring propositions of the process-based model of self-regulation, this study also examines elements of sanction-based models of social control. Findings indicate that respondents who shared the race/ethnicity with police experienced more voice and a greater obligation to obey. In addition, male offenders who perceived the police as more procedurally just reported significantly greater obligation to obey while perceived certainty of arrest and ambiguity of arrest risk were not significantly related to respondent’s self-regulating beliefs.

The Impact of the Defense Attorney on Plea Decision-Making: An Experimental Analysis

“…As a precaution, we controlled for both direct and vicarious involvements in the criminal justice system. Studies have shown that the relationship between procedural justice and obedience to the law is similar among both general and incarcerated populations (Baker, 2017, 2018; Baker et al, 2014, 2015; Baker & Gau, 2018), which may also be the case with the relationships of interest in the current study. To be sure, replication of the study is necessary with a sample of solely criminal justice-involved respondents.…”

Using Structural Equations to Model the Relationships between Procedural Justice, Risky Lifestyles, and Violent Inmate Misconduct

“…Although these results reflect only one study, if future research replicates these findings, it will be critical for crime control policies to incorporate efforts not only to enhance the quality of treatment by criminal justice agents, including correctional officers, but also to reduce criminal opportunities associated with risky lifestyles [99]. A wealth of research has shown that procedural justice can deter crime among not only the general population but also offender populations [8][9][10]. The current results from a sample of incarcerated offenders suggest that attempts to provide a high quality of treatment at the hand of correctional officers may serve to help inmates' adjustment to prison [63,64].…”

“…When citizens perceive that they are being treated fairly, they are more likely to comply with the law [6,7]. Research evidence has consistently supported the efficacy of procedural justice in gaining compliance from offender populations, e.g., [8][9][10].…”

The short-term and long-term impacts of the procedural justice training

“…Hamm et al , 2017; Baker and Gau, 2018), policing studies often consider these elements as part of procedural justice in police–citizen encounters (see review by Jonathan-Zamir et al , 2015). As noted by Baker (2018), as research moves from examining what affects procedural justice to the impacts of procedural justice, antecedents such as voice have been subsumed into measures of procedural justice.…”