The Salience of Social Contextual Factors in Appraisals of Police Interactions with Citizens: A Randomized Factorial Experiment

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 599-627

  Braga, Anthony A ^a,b   Winship, Christopher ^b   Tyler, Tom R ^c   Fagan, Jeffrey ^d   Meares, Tracey L ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Police legitimacy; Priming; Procedural justice; Randomized factorial experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919419214     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: 15737799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-014-9216-7     Document Type: Article

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