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Cover -- Ciferae -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- VALLATUS INDICIBUS ATQUE SICARIIS: Surrounded by Informers and Assassins -- Like Water in Water -- Into Your Hand They Are Delivered -- Deciphering Deciphering -- Prickly Porcupines and Docile Dogs -- An ABC of Animals -- If a Lion Had Hands -- Quia Ego Nominor Leo -- Taking Animals in Hand -- RIDETO MULTUM ET DIGITUM PORRIGITO MEDIUM: Laugh Loudly and Flip Them the Bird -- Two Hands Are Better Than One -- The Truth about Mice and Ducks -- The Philosopher and the Gnat -- The Birds and the Bees -- The Back of a Tiger

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- 1. Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Compliance -- 2. Design of the Chicago Study -- Part Two: Legitimacy and Compliance -- 3. Legitimacy as a Theoretical Issue -- 4. Measuring Legitimacy and Compliance -- 5. Does Legitimacy Contribute Independently to Compliance? -- Part Three: Citizens' Concerns When Dealing with Legal Authorities -- 6. What Do People Want from Legal Authorities? -- 7. Measuring the Psychological Variables -- 8. Does Experience Influence Legitimacy? -- Part Four: The Meaning of Procedural Justice -- 9. The Psychology of Procedural Justice -- 10. The Influence of Control on the Meaning of Procedural Justice -- 11. Beyond Control -- Part Five: Conclusions -- 12. The Antecedents of Compliant Behavior -- 13. The Psychology of Legitimacy -- Appendix A: Questionnaire Used in First Wave of Chicago Study -- Appendix B: Coefficient Alphas for Scales Used in the Analysis -- Appendix C: Frequency Data -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Index

Society would gain if the police moved away from the goal of harm reduction via crime reduction and toward promoting the economic, social, and political vitality of American communities. Research suggests that the police can contribute to this goal if they design and implement their policies and practices in ways that promote public trust. Such trust develops when the police exercise their authority in ways that people evaluate as being procedurally just.

This article makes three points. First, the police need public support and cooperation to be effective in their order-maintenance role, and they particularly benefit when they have the voluntary support and cooperation of most members of the public, most of the time. Second, such voluntary support and cooperation is linked to judgments about the legitimacy of the police. A central reason people cooperate with the police is that they view them as legitimate legal authorities, entitled to be obeyed. Third, a key antecedent of public judgments about the legitimacy of the police and of policing activities involves public assessments of the manner in which the police exercise their authority. Such procedural-justice judgments are central to public evaluations of the police and influence such evaluations separately from assessments of police effectiveness in fighting crime. These findings suggest the importance of enhancing public views about the legitimacy of the police and suggest process-based strategies for achieving that objective.

This article makes three points. First, the police need public support & cooperation to be effective in their order-maintenance role, & they particularly benefit when they have the voluntary support & cooperation of most members of the public, most of the time. Second, such voluntary support & cooperation is linked to judgments about the legitimacy of the police. A central reason people cooperate with the police is that they view them as legitimate legal authorities, entitled to be obeyed. Third, a key antecedent of public judgments about the legitimacy of the police & of policing activities involves public assessments of the manner in which the police exercise their authority. Such procedural-justice judgments are central to public evaluations of the police & influence such evaluations separately from assessments of police effectiveness in fighting crime. These findings suggest the importance of enhancing public views about the legitimacy of the police & suggest process-based strategies for achieving that objective. 64 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004.]