Police-Led Interventions to Enhance Police Legitimacy
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_478
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A growing body of policing research demonstrates that procedurally just approaches to policing – including satisfaction, trust, and confidence – improve citizen perceptions of police, thereby influencing perceptions of police legitimacy and facilitating the capacity of police to maintain order and control crime. This entry draws from a systematic search of police legitimacy and presents a qualitative overview of 104 evaluations of policing interventions that sought to improve police legitimacy. Mazerolle and colleagues (2013) used content analytic methods to synthesize the extant literature, examining studies that used either a process- or instrumental-based approach to enhance perceptions of legitimacy. In this entry, it is shown that some interventions, notably those that are police-only type interventions, seek to influence legitimacy primarily through their efforts to be more effective. In contrast, interventions that involve partnership...
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