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Published in Policing and society, 2012: 332-345.
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2012.671826
Author(s) affiliated with: Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London.
Summary
"This paper describes the immediate and more distant origins of a programme of comparative research that is examining cross-national variations in public trust in justice and in the police. The programme is built around a module of the fifth European Social Survey, and evolved from a study funded by the European Commission. The paper describes the conceptual framework within which we are operating – developed in large measure from theories of procedural justice. It reviews some of the methodological issues raised by the use of sample surveys to research issues of public trust in the police, public perceptions of institutional legitimacy and compliance with the law. Finally it gives a flavour of some of the early findings emerging from the programme.."--Abstract.