Police legitimacy, ideology and qualitative methods: a critique of procedural justice theory
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01/11/2015
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Resumo |
I argue that there are unconsidered complexities to police legitimacy and use examples from my study of police–public consultation forums in Edinburgh, Scotland to illustrate. I make a number of conceptual and methodological critiques by drawing upon Steven Lukes’ social theory on power to show how legitimacy can be a product of authority relations as much as it is a cause of authority relations. This view finds support from systems-justification theory. I also tackle Beetham’s conception of legitimacy and argue that there is evidence from police studies that the police breach his key antecedents to legitimacy without incurring the expected consequences. Furthermore, I take an original methodological approach to studying police legitimacy which reveals additional insights. For instance, Bottoms and Tankebe suggest legitimacy addresses multiple ‘audiences’; I would also add that it addresses multiple recipients as legitimacy is shown to vary among officers and positions of rank. |
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eng |
Publicador |
Sage |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30075565/harkin-policelegitimacy-2015.pdf http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895815580397 |
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2015, Sage |
Palavras-Chave | #Social Sciences #Criminology & Penology #Ideology #police legitimacy #power #procedural justice #systems-justification theory #SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION THEORY #FIELD TRIAL #TRUST #PERCEPTIONS #FAIRNESS #COLONIALISM #COOPERATION #ENCOUNTERS #CONFIDENCE #CONTACT |
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Journal Article |