Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Robert E. Worden; Sarah J. McLean

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2017

Mirage of Police Reform

Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520965966

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In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police.

In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory.

Author / Editor information

Worden Robert E. :

Robert E. Worden is Director of the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Sarah J. McLean is Associate Director and Director of Research and Technical Assistance at the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. The Procedural Justice Model as Reform Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Police Departments as Institutionalized Organizations Open Access Download PDF	14
3. Police Legitimacy Open Access Download PDF	42
4. Procedural Justice in Citizens’ Subjective Experiences Open Access Download PDF	69
5. Citizens’ Dissatisfaction in Their Own Words Open Access Download PDF	88
6. Procedural Justice in Police Action Open Access Download PDF	101
7. Citizens’ Subjective Experience and Police Action Open Access Download PDF	130
8. Procedural Justice and Management Accountability Open Access Download PDF	149
9. Procedural Justice and Street-Level Sensemaking Open Access Download PDF	166
10. Reflections on Police Reform Open Access Download PDF	178
Methodological Appendix Open Access Download PDF	197
Notes Open Access Download PDF	209
References Open Access Download PDF	217
Index Open Access Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 268

eBook

Published: May 12, 2017
ISBN: 9780520965966