Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Craen, Maarten Van; Skogan, Wesley G.

doi:10.1177/1477370814543156

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“…In public opinion surveys, perceptions of fair policing strongly influence citizens’ attitudes toward the police and impact on aspects of the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement. Procedural justice research has shown that the applications of its principles can foster trust in the police, enhance the legitimacy of the institutions, and encourage (self-reports of) several forms of cooperative and supportive behavior by members of the public (Jackson et al, 2012; Murphy, Mazerolle, & Bennett, 2014; Sunshine & Tyler, 2003; Tankebe, 2008; Van Craen & Skogan, 2015). Excessive police force remains an issue of great concern, even in democratic societies.…”

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Officer Support for Use of Force Policy: The Role of Fair Supervision

Craen

Skogan²

2017

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Police use of force is an issue of great concern, even in democratic societies. Recent events in the United States and Europe reinforce older lessons that legitimate policing is both important and hard to achieve. This article adds to our understanding of how a fundamental aspect of police organizations—supervision—might contribute to a better justified use of force by the police. We examine the relationship between fair supervision (internal procedural justice) and officers’ support for restrictions on their use of force. Our findings suggest that supervisor modeling can provide an important linkage between the two. The results also suggest that fair supervision fosters support for restraint in the use of force through greater moral alignment with citizens and increased trust in the general public. The implications of this for research and police practice are discussed.

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Officer Support for Use of Force Policy: The Role of Fair Supervision

Craen

Skogan²

2017

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…When the police make decisions fairly and treat citizens with dignity and respect (net of the actual outcome of the treatment), people are more likely to feel a sense of satisfaction and comply with the law represented by the police. Thus, the first variable was the perception of procedural justice consisting of five items intended to assess quality of treatment of the police (e.g., Bradford, Jackson, & Stanko, 2009; Van Craen & Skogan, 2014). Respondents were asked to rate the following statements using a Likert scale of values ranging from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree : the HPD’s officers are courteous, honest, respectful toward the people like me, fair, and communicate very well.…”

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Public Attitudes Toward the Police: Findings From a Dual-Frame Telephone Survey

Ren

Zhao

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Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Using telephone survey data collected in Houston, Texas, this study explores the feasibility of a dual-frame (landline and cell-phone-only household samples) design survey in police studies and compares the corresponding characteristics of survey respondents and multiple measures of citizens' attitudes toward the police. It was found that a cell-phone interview with the same scope and length of a landline interview is indeed operationally feasible, albeit at higher cost and lower response rate. Compared with their landline counterparts, respondents in our cell-phone-only sample are younger, males, members of ethnic minority, renters, mobile, and less educated. No appreciable attitudinal differences among the respondents are observed between the two samples. In addition, substantive outcomes from multivariate regression models do not seem to be impacted by the types of phones used. Implications for future studies are included.

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“…Mean years of education of people age 25 and older (UNDP, 2013) +/− Citizens that are more educated may be more likely to voice their positions and may be more critical about their government or, as a result of their voice, may have achieved the police service they want. Research finds mixed relationships between education and trust in the police (MacDonald & Stokes, 2006;Nix et al, 2015;Van Craen & Skogan, 2015).…”

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Decentralization and citizen trust: An empirical study of policing in more and less developed countries

Lowatcharin

Stallmann

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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Decentralization is argued to enhance citizen–government relationships and, thus, to lead to higher levels of citizen trust. General purpose policing encompasses various services that might be assigned to different levels of governments. The literature lacks generalizable studies of the effects of the structural arrangements of police systems on police performance. This study is a cross‐national exploration of the relationship between the varying degrees of police decentralization and police performance as measured by citizen trust in the police. It uses a measure of decentralization of police systems based on the tiers of government with some control over police. Results show that, in the 72 sample countries, the relationship between citizen trust in police and decentralized police systems is not statistically significant. However, when the countries are categorized by the Human Development Index, decentralized police systems tend to be positively related to citizen trust in the more developed countries but inversely in the less developed countries.

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Trust in the Belgian police: The importance of responsiveness

Cited by 46 publications

References 70 publications

Officer Support for Use of Force Policy: The Role of Fair Supervision

Officer Support for Use of Force Policy: The Role of Fair Supervision

Public Attitudes Toward the Police: Findings From a Dual-Frame Telephone Survey

Decentralization and citizen trust: An empirical study of policing in more and less developed countries

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