The effect of low self-control on perceived police legitimacy

Wolfe, Scott E.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.10.006

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“…Trust in the benevolence and good will of individual officers is central to the legitimacy of policing as an institution of social control (Sunshine & Tyler, 2003;Tyler, 2006;Tyler & Huo, 2002;Tyler & Wakslak, 2004). Procedural justice and police legitimacy involve subjective, psychological judgments (Murphy, 2009b;Piquero et al, 2004;Wolfe, 2011), so it was predicted here that officers' requests for consent to search would be construed by drivers as derogatory or unethical, irrespective of officers' actual reasons for making the stop or the request.…”

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Consent Searches as a Threat to Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Gau

2012

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Consent searches during traffic stops offer police a way to expediently check motorists' vehicles for contraband. Asking drivers for consent to search their vehicles, however, may cause them to feel negatively about the encounter and, consequently, to question officers' motives for pulling them over. The present study analyzes stopped motorists' reactions to consent requests; specifically, consent requests are theorized to damage these individuals' perceptions of procedural justice and, moreover, of the legitimacy of the stop itself. Logistic regression analyses of a nationally representative sample support these hypotheses. Policy implications include the need for judicious use of consent searches, as they appear to be a form of procedural injustice that erodes police legitimacy.

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Consent Searches as a Threat to Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Gau

2012

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…According to the theory, these modules are regulated by a computational inhibition module, which comprises a monitor and a threshold component. In policecitizen encounters, the impulsive module to aggress against a provoking citizen may conflict with more long-term goals, for instance by creating later costs burdening the police-citizen relationship (Reisig et al 2004;Sherman 1993;Tyler and Huo 2002;Wolfe 2011). The monitor module detects the requirement to inhibit an impulsive module.…”

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“…As Klukkert et al (2009) indicated, emotional cognitions centered around the fear of losing authority and the fear of escalation may trigger aggression towards initially non-compliant citizens. Though still in line with legal and institutional guidelines, exhibiting aggression too early in police-citizen encounters may impose costs for the officer at a later point, for instance through an increased risk to the officer's physical integrity following a suspect resisting arrest (Reisig et al 2004;Sherman 1993;Tyler and Huo 2002;Wolfe 2011). The regulation of selfcontrol, especially in light of provocation, would be beneficial in order to further negotiate non-physically (Zaiser and Staller 2015).…”

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“…Even in situations where the use of force may be legitimate, it has been argued that self-regulation that allows for the use of non-aggressive behaviors may prove to be a more effective and less risky option for police officers (Zaiser and Staller 2015). Despite the ability to achieve compliance through physical force, use of force generally results in merely temporary compliance and may ultimately lead to disrespect and violence on the part of the subject (Reisig et al 2004;Sherman 1993;Tyler and Huo 2002;Wolfe 2011). To date, research has yet to address the potential relationship between self-control failure and use of force.…”

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Do they Aggress Earlier? Investigating the Effects of Ego Depletion on Police Officers’ Use of Force Behavior

Staller

Christiansen

Zaiser

et al. 2017

J Police Crim Psych

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Endowed with the state monopoly on the legitimate use of even potentially lethal force, it is intolerable for police officers to act outside the governing legal and ethical framework. At the same time, officers are expected to exert self-control and refrain from excessive use of force when they deal with provocative and perilous situations. This study sought to investigate corresponding selfcontrol and self-control failures through the role of ego depletion in the decision to use force by police officers. Two experiments were conducted using officers from a German State Police force, requiring the participants to use force against a provocative role player. Experiment 1 found that the ego depletion measure failed and there were no differences between the groups. Using a different ego depletion method, experiment 2 found that ego-depleted participants aggressed earlier than controls. These results indicate that circumstances that produce ego depletion could lead to the inappropriate use of force through reducing self-control. This has major implications for the police use of force and how we understand police officers' decision-making in response to provocation.

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“…Tyler and Huo (2002) replicated these findings among samples of New York City and Oakland residents by revealing that individuals are more likely to trust the motivations of law enforcement when they perceive officer actions to be procedurally fair. The procedural justice-legitimacy link has been shown to generalize across various samples in the United States (see, for example, Gau, 2009Gau, , 2011Gau, Corsaro, Stewart, & Brunson, 2012;Wolfe, 2011) and several countries outside of the United States (J. Jackson, Bradford, Hough, et al, 2012;Jonathan-Zamir & Weisburd, 2013;Mazerolle, Antrobus, Bennett, & Tyler, 2013;Mazerolle, Bennett, Antrobus, & Eggins, 2012;Reisig, Tankebe, & Meško, 2012, 2014cf.…”

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Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and School Principals’ Evaluations of School Resource Officers

Wolfe

Chrusciel

Rojek

et al. 2016

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Violence and active shooter situations in schools have been important issues to the public, policy makers, and scholars in recent years. School resource officers (SROs) are widely used in efforts to address school crime-related threats. Yet, little is known about the factors that influence key stakeholders' (e.g., school principals) evaluations of such officers. The present study uses survey data from a sample of public school principals in South Carolina to examine the role of procedural justice theory in understanding evaluations of SROs. The results reveal that procedural justice is associated with principals' support for SROs, perceived effectiveness of SROs, and level of trust and satisfaction in SROs. The policy implications of the results center on the importance of SRO procedural fairness in maintaining quality relationships with top school administrators which may ultimately have a wider impact on the success of SRO programs.

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The effect of low self-control on perceived police legitimacy

Cited by 105 publications

References 46 publications

Consent Searches as a Threat to Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Consent Searches as a Threat to Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Do they Aggress Earlier? Investigating the Effects of Ego Depletion on Police Officers’ Use of Force Behavior

Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and School Principals’ Evaluations of School Resource Officers

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