Police-Citizen Relations Across the World: Comparing Sources and Contexts of Trust and Legitimacy

Police-citizen relations are at the forefront of the political agenda, largely in relation to outbursts of violence in major European and US cities after use of force by the police but also in line with police response to attacks by radicalized home grown terrorists. This book considers questions of [...]
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Police-citizen relations are at the forefront of the political agenda, largely in relation to outbursts of violence in major European and US cities after use of force by the police but also in line with police response to attacks by radicalized home grown terrorists. This book considers questions of police legitimacy in different regions of the world and explores how it is framed in different national and local contexts.
Bringing together a range of leading researcher from around the world, this book re-conceptualizes police legitimacy by paying greater importance to national political and institutional contexts, social groups, and police organizational structures. It focuses on societal cleavages and social identities and their effects on police legitimacy, explores the perception of legitimacy and examines how procedural justice is important for building legitimacy.