Many studies have been done on legitimacy surveys asking questions about confidence and trust of the police and the public's willingness to follow the police orders. Tyler and Muo(2002) conducted a study to access these types of questions to learn people's sense of accepting police decisions. they found that people who viewed the police as legitimate were more likely to accept their orders. When police act fairly and used procedural justice they were more accepting of the police actions. In theory and in real world setting legitimacy has an effect on the public's actions by obeying the law which was shown in the neighborhoods of Chicago Tyler(1990). This leads to people not just complying, but giving information and reporting crimes to
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Within the research on police and legitimacy procedural justice has been an important topic. This fairness of procedural justice that individuals experience by law enforcement, enhances their acceptance of policy decisions Wissler(199). This has been put to the test in multiple studies, including on domestic violence Paternoster et al(1997( which found domestic violence offenders who experience fair treatment by police had less rates of future domestic violence. As fairness has been shown to help cooperation, disrespect has shown the opposite. when people are disrespected by the police they become less likely to comply with orders Mastrofski, Snipes and …show more content…
The key features of procedural justice that transcend communities are participating, neutrality, and trust. First participation is important to allow the suspect to explain themselves to authority Adler, Hensler and Nelson(1983). Next is neutrality, enhancing police legitimacy is helpful when the police are seen as neutral Tyler(2004). The next element is respect, people like to be respected by law enforcement and act positive and when respected. Another important element is trust Tyler(1990) shows that the majority of people have trust that they will be treated fair in the future by courts and law enforcement which is important to procedural justice. These elements of procedural justice are important to the major race groups in America, including blacks, latinos and whites as well as among different social and economic classes, genders, ages, political unity and
Within the research on police and legitimacy procedural justice has been an important topic. This fairness of procedural justice that individuals experience by law enforcement, enhances their acceptance of policy decisions Wissler(199). This has been put to the test in multiple studies, including on domestic violence Paternoster et al(1997( which found domestic violence offenders who experience fair treatment by police had less rates of future domestic violence. As fairness has been shown to help cooperation, disrespect has shown the opposite. when people are disrespected by the police they become less likely to comply with orders Mastrofski, Snipes and …show more content…
The key features of procedural justice that transcend communities are participating, neutrality, and trust. First participation is important to allow the suspect to explain themselves to authority Adler, Hensler and Nelson(1983). Next is neutrality, enhancing police legitimacy is helpful when the police are seen as neutral Tyler(2004). The next element is respect, people like to be respected by law enforcement and act positive and when respected. Another important element is trust Tyler(1990) shows that the majority of people have trust that they will be treated fair in the future by courts and law enforcement which is important to procedural justice. These elements of procedural justice are important to the major race groups in America, including blacks, latinos and whites as well as among different social and economic classes, genders, ages, political unity and