Justifying violence: legitimacy, ideology and public support for police use of force
Justifying violence: legitimacy, ideology and public support for police use of force
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DOI：
10.1080/1068316x.2016.1220556
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Jackson, Jonathan
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作者：
Gerber, Monica M.;Jackson, Jonathan
在什么情况下人们支持警察使用武力？在本文中，我们评估了警察合法性、政治意识形态（右翼威权主义和社会主导取向）以及对合理使用武力（例如，警察出于自卫袭击公民）和过度使用武力（例如，警察使用暴力逮捕没有进行暴力抵抗的手无寸铁的人）的支持之间的一些经验联系。通过分析一项针对美国参与者的在线调查数据（n=186），我们发现，合法性是警察合理但不过度使用武力的积极预测因素，而政治意识形态预测了对过度但不合理使用武力的支持。我们的结论是，合法性对警察权力施加了规范性约束。一方面，合法性与增加对使用武力的支持有关，但只有当暴力被限制在某些可接受的范围内时才会如此。另一方面，过度使用武力似乎需要一种法外的理由，至少在我们的分析中，这种理由部分是意识形态的。我们的研究结果为目前相当稀少的关于合法性驯服“强制权力”能力的心理学文献开辟了一个新的研究方向。
Under what conditions do people support police use of force? In this paper we assess some of the empirical links between police legitimacy, political ideology (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation), and support for reasonable' use of force (e.g. an officer striking a citizen in self-defence) and excessive' use of force (e.g. an officer using violence to arrest an unarmed person who is not offering violent resistance). Analysing data from an online survey with US participants (n=186) we find that legitimacy is a positive predictor of reasonable but not excessive police use of force, and that political ideology predicts support for excessive but not reasonable use of force. We conclude with the idea that legitimacy places normative constraints around police power. On the one hand, legitimacy is associated with increased support for the use of force, but only when violence is bounded within certain acceptable limits. On the other hand, excessive use of force seems to require an extra-legal justification that is - at least in our analysis - partly ideological. Our findings open up a new direction of research in what is currently a rather sparse psychological literature on the ability of legitimacy to tame' coercive power.