Officers as Mirrors
Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Bradford (0000-0001-5480-5638, Griffith University, corresponding author), Kristina Murphy (0000-0002-5417-9566, University of Oxford), Jonathan Jackson (0000-0003-2426-2219, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-550 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azu021 |
| OpenAlex | W1981652707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 126 |
| References cited | 59 |
Encounters with the criminal justice system shape people's perceptions of the legitimacy of legal authorities, and the dominant explanatory framework for this relationship revolves around the idea that procedurally just practice increases people's positive connections to justice institutions. But there have been few assessments of the idea -central to procedural justice theory -that social identity acts as an important social-psychological bridge in this process. Our contribution in this paper is to examine the empirical links between procedural justice, social identity and legitimacy in the context of policing in Australia. A representative two-wave panel survey of Australians suggests that social identity does mediate the association between procedural justice and perceptions of legitimacy. It seems that when people feel fairly treated by police, their sense of identification with the superordinate group the police represent is enhanced, strengthening police legitimacy as a result. By contrast, unfair treatment signals to people that they do not belong, undermining both identification and police legitimacy.
Context (archaeology) · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Identity (music) · Legitimacy · Perception · Political science · Politics · Procedural justice · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Superordinate goals · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Ethnicity, group position and police legitimacy
Identity and Perceptions of Procedural Justice in the Courts in Turkey
Police Studies Program for Youth at Risk
Using Structural Equations to Model the Relationships between Procedural Justice, Risky Lifestyles, and Violent Inmate Misconduct
Toward a multidimensional model of legitimacy
Reassessing the relationship between procedural justice and police legitimacy
Compliance and Legal Authority
Carving Up Concepts? Differentiating Between Trust and Legitimacy in Public Attitudes Towards Legal Authority
Bounded authority
The Consequences of Being an Object of Suspicion
The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States
Unauthorized Latinos and procedural justice
Legitimacy and online proceedings
Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’
Following the evidence-base or exacerbating harms? An autoethnography of a London metropolitan police officer
Exploring the dynamics of identity, procedural justice and police legitimacy in the context of anti-war demonstrations in the UK
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy ‘Hard to Win, Easy to Lose’? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate
Prying Open the Black Box of Causality
Understanding Willingness to Cooperate With Police
If the Cops Won’t, Maybe a Gang Will
Illuminating the Concept of Community (Group)-Level Procedural Justice
Procedural Justice and Mental Well-Being in Prisons
The transformer led policing matrix
Police legitimacy and digital technologies
Exploring the Association between Levels of Police Presence, Contact, and Perceptions of Police Legitimacy
The Influence of Group Identification and Morality in Support for Defunding the Police
Protest Policing, Normative Alignment, and Riot Gear
Jailed Individuals’ Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Suicidal Ideation
The construction and shaping of protesters’ perceptions of police legitimacy
The arc of procedural justice in a U.S. non-metro community
Police studies program for at-risk youth in youth villages
Is dissatisfaction with police inevitable? Testing an integrated model of motivational postures and procedural justice in police-citizen contacts
Policing pandemic in China
Punishing Protesters on the “Other Side”
Authority fairness for all? Intergroup status and expectations of procedural justice and resource distribution
Governing sex workers through trust
The significance of victim ideality in interactions between crime victims and police officers
Procedural justice, social identity and public cooperation in post-Confucian societies - A test of group engagement model in Taiwan
Measuring trust in the police by contextual and individual factors
Post‐conflict police reconstruction
Procedural (in)justice, emotions, and compliance
The social psychological processes of ‘procedural justice’
Procedural justice and process-based models
How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities
Legitimacy‐based policing
The dual impact of procedural injustice
Why do children cooperate with police? The nexus of the authority relations and cognitive developmental perspectives
Encouraging minority trust and compliance with police in a procedural justice experiment
Social identity and support for defunding the police in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder
The role of anger in mediating the effects of procedural justice and injustice
My Kids Won’t Grow up Here’
The foundations of defiance
Gangnam Style versus Eye of the Tiger
Race and support for police use of force
Police legitimacy in Asia
A crisis of legitimacy
Making sense of policing identities
Fairness, relationships and perceptions of police legitimacy in the context of integrated offender management
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain
Ethnic identity and perceptions of the police in Turkey
Police legitimacy in Africa
Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations
When is policing fair? Groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing
Social identity and procedural justice in police encounters with the public
Perception of the police amongst migrant teenagers from Muslim majority countries in Western European host countries
Scumbags! An ethnography of the interactions between street-based youth and police officers
The defiant and the compliant
The impact of police contact on trust and police legitimacy in Belgium
Over and out
Visibly better? Testing the effect of ethnic appearance on citizen perceptions of the police
Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant
A Question of Sacrifice
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Identity Prism
Body-Worn Camera Policy in Canadian Policing
System contact and procedural justice policing
The ideal victim
The space between
Den gode fangen
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues
Managing cattle rustling by enhancing police–community cooperation in the Karamoja Cluster
Why do we view the police to be legitimate? Examining shame-sanction emotions on perception of police legitimacy
The language of belonging
Othering' by Consent? Public Attitudes to Covid-19 Restrictions and the Role of the Police in Managing Compliance in England
Fairness, function, and belonging
At the Intersection of Disadvantage
More than Money
Normative vs. Instrumental model of police legitimacy
Testing a Social Schematic Model of Police Procedural Justice
Do interactions with the police correlate with identity formation? Examining the relationship between police legitimacy, procedural justice, and self-identification over time
National Identification and Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana
Procedurally just cooperation
Is it un‐American to view the police as illegitimate? The role of national identity in the legal socialization process
Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy
Asymmetry in process‐based model relationships
Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States
Experience of the Expected?” Race and Ethnicity Differences in the Effects of Police Contact on Youth
Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries
Legitimating Practices
Criminological theories
Policing the Risk Society
Policing and the Condition of EnglandMemory, Politics and Culture
The Effect of Police Contact
Youth Justice?
Public Satisfaction With Police
Trust and legitimacy
Testing and extending the group engagement model
Overcoming cop culture? Organizational justice and police officers’ attitudes toward the public
Procedural justice, routine encounters and citizen perceptions of police
Ethnicity, trust and cooperation with police
Why People Obey the Law
The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior
A Relational Model of Authority in Groups
Continuity and Discontinuity in Criminal Careers
Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Identity Theory
Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance
The Group Engagement Model
Delinquency and Drift
Civilizing Security
Superordinate Identification, Subgroup Identification, and Justice Concerns
Policing and social identity
Encouraging public cooperation and support for police
Moral Solidarity, Identification with the Community, and the Importance of Procedural Justice
Examining macro-level impacts on procedural justice and police legitimacy
Profiling and Police Legitimacy
Viewing Things Differently
Self-uncertainty and responsiveness to procedural justice
Policing British Asian Identities
Policing the Dross
Public Confidence in Policing
The Persistence of Labelling Effects
Media use and the Process-Based Model for Police Cooperation
Understanding Cooperation With Police in a Diverse Society
The Effects of Public Labelling
Why do People Comply with the Law
Human Nature and the Social Order
Nurturing regulatory compliance
What price fairness when security is at stake? Police legitimacy in South Africa
Popular legitimacy and the exercise of legal authority
Monopolizing force? Police legitimacy and public attitudes toward the acceptability of violence
Negotiated order
Crime, policing and social order
The Role of Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Shaping Public Support for Policing
Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
Am I Respected or Not
| Unique citing works | 126 |
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| Citations per year | 10,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 120 |