Is the Effect of Procedural Justice on Police Legitimacy Invariant? Testing the Generality of Procedural Justice and Competing Antecedents of Legitimacy

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 253-282

  Wolfe, Scott E ^a   Nix, Justin ^b   Kaminski, Robert ^a   Rojek, Jeff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Fairness; Obligation to obey; Police effectiveness; Police legitimacy; Procedural justice; Process based model; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938124798     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-015-9263-8     Document Type: Article

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