Identity, legitimacy and "making sense" of police use of force
Identity, legitimacy and "making sense" of police use of force
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DOI：
10.1108/pijpsm-06-2016-0085
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Jackson, Jonathan
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作者：
Bradford, Ben;Milani, Jenna;Jackson, Jonathan
目的-本文的目的是研究警察合法性和社会认同在多大程度上解释了公众对警察使用武力的接受程度。作者评估是否有合法性和公众接受明显非法或不道德的警察行动之间的关联;以及在何种程度上与一个特定的社会群体的识别预测判断的警察behavior.Design/方法/途径-这项研究借鉴了横截面的数据，从2015年的一个代表性样本的成年人在英格兰和威尔士的调查。结构方程模型是用来模拟潜在constructs.Findings之间的条件相关性-有两个主要的发现。首先，更强烈地认同警察可能被视为代表的社会群体，与更大程度地接受警察使用武力有关，无论这种武力是否合理。第二，对警察合法性的信念也与接受有关，但主要是只在有关使用武力的情况下，它似乎表面上是合理的。社会影响-结果表明一个可能的一组原因，为什么警察保留公众的支持，在面对有关过度使用武力的丑闻。独创性/价值-这是为数不多的使用调查数据来探讨警察使用武力的非专业理由的研究之一。
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which police legitimacy and social identity explain variation in public acceptance of police use of force. The authors assess whether there is an association between legitimacy and public acceptance of apparently illegal or unethical police action; and the extent to which identification with a particular social group predicts judgments of police behavior.Design/methodology/approach - The study draws upon cross-sectional data from a 2015 survey of a representative sample of adults in England and Wales. Structural equation modeling is used to model conditional correlations between latent constructs.Findings - There are two main findings. First, identifying more strongly with a social group that the police may be seen to represent was consistently associated with greater acceptance of police use of force, whether or not that force seemed to be justified. Second, beliefs about the legitimacy of the police were also associated with acceptance, but primarily only in relation to the use of force in situations where it appeared prima facie justifiable.Social implications - Results suggest one possible set of reasons why police retain public support in the face of scandals concerning excessive use of force.Originality/value - This is one of only very few studies that have used survey data to explore lay justifications for police use of force.