Shaping Citizen Perceptions of Police Legitimacy: A Randomized Field Trial of Procedural Justice

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-63

  Mazerolle, Lorraine ^a   Antrobus, Emma ^a   Bennett, Sarah ^a   Tyler, Tom R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Legitimacy policing; Procedural justice; Random breath tests; Randomized field trial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874177512     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2012.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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