Just Authority?: Trust in the Police in England and Wales

By Katrin Hohl, Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, et al.

Book Overview

Just Authority? provides the most authoritative and comprehensive analysis thus far of the meaning, distribution and significance of trust in the police and the legitimacy of legal authorities. Drawing on psychological and sociological explanatory paradigms, Just Authority? presents a cutting-edge empirical study into public trust, police legitimacy, and people's readiness to cooperate with officers.

It represents, first, the most detailed test to date of Tom Tyler's procedural justice model attempted outside the United States. Second, it uncovers the social ecology of trust and legitimacy and, third, it describes the relationships between trust, legitimacy and cooperation.This book contains many important lessons for practitioners, policy-makers and academics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843928485
• ISBN13: 9781843928485
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"