Legitimacy-based policing and the promotion of community vitality / Tom R. Tyler, Caroline Nobo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyler, Tom R., author.

Nobo, Caroline, author.

Series:

Elements in Criminology Series

Cambridge elements. Elements in criminology 2633-3341

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police.

Police-community relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This Element presents the history, research, and future potential for an alternative and effective model of policing called 'legitimacy-based policing'. This model is driven by social psychology theory and informed by research findings showing that legitimacy of the police shapes public acceptance of police decisions, willingness to cooperate with the police, and citizen engagement in communities. Police legitimacy is found to be strongly tied to the level of fairness exercised by police authority, i.e. to procedural justice. Taken together these two ideas create an alternative framework for policing that relies upon the policed community's willing acceptance of and cooperation with the law. Studies show that this framework is as effective in lowering crime as the traditional carceral paradigm, an approach that relies on the threat or use of force to motivate compliance. It is also more effective in motivating willing cooperation and in encouraging people to engage in their communities in ways that promote social, economic and political development. We demonstrate that adopting this model benefits police departments and police officers as well as promoting community vitality.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Legitimacy-Based Policing and the Promotion of Community Vitality

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Goals of This Element

2 The Coercive Model of Crime Suppression: Sanction-Based Harm Reduction

2.1 Evaluating the Strength of Harm Reduction Models

2.2 The Warrior Culture

2.3 Declines in Crime in the United States

2.4 Problems Associated with Force-Based Policing

2.5 Legitimacy-Based Policing

3 Psychological Models of Authority

3.1 The Psychology of Authority

3.1.1 Legitimacy

3.1.2 Procedural Justice

3.1.3 Social Exchange

3.1.4 Social Identity

3.2 The Psychology of Authority

3.2.1 Empirical Evaluations of the Legitimacy-Based Model

3.2.2 Procedural Justice in Management

3.3 Applying Theories from the Social Sciences

4 Legitimacy-Based Policing

4.1 Procedural Justice

4.2 Breadth of the Model

4.3 Ethnicity and Policing

4.4 Implications for Policing

4.4.1 Dealing with the Public

4.4.2 Diversion

4.4.3 Police Tactics

4.5 Internal Procedural Justice

4.6 Methodology

4.7 Implementing Change

5 Expanding the Goals of Policing

5.1 Promoting Reassurance

5.2 Strengthening Communities

5.3 Social Capital in New York City

5.4 How Should Resources Be Allocated?

6 Expanding Participation When Identifying Community Problems and Solutions

6.1 A Community-Based Effort toward Institutional Design

6.2 What Do People Want?

6.3 Portals

6.4 Building Consensus

6.5 Expertise vs. Experience

6.6 Community Pressure for Change

6.7 External Metrics of Development

6.8 Community Vitality as Economic Strength

6.9 Vitality as Psychological Well-Being

6.10 Why Support Community Engagement?

7 Conclusion

References

About the Authors.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2023).

ISBN:

9781009308021

1009308025

9781009308038

1009308033

9781009308014

1009308017

OCLC:

1493013200