Mirage of police reform : procedural justice and police legitimacy / Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worden, Robert E., author.

McLean, Sarah J., 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police-community relations--United States.

Police-community relations.

United States.

Police administration--United States.

Police administration.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In the United States, the exercise of police authority--and the public's trust that police authority is used properly--is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The procedural justice model as reform

Police departments as institutionalized organizations

Police legitimacy

Procedural justice in citizens' subjective experiences

Citizens' dissatisfaction in their own words

Procedural justice in police action

Citizens' subjective experience and police action

Procedural justice and management accountability

Procedural justice and street-level sensemaking

Reflections on police reform

Methodological appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.

ISBN:

9780520292413

0520292413

OCLC:

961310961