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Why Do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions
This paper extends Tyler’s procedural justice model of public compliance with the law. Analysing data from a national probability sample of adults in England and Wales, we present a new…
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A psychological perspective on vulnerability in the fear of crime
Abstract This paper examines vulnerability and risk perception in the fear of crime. Past studies have often treated gender and age as proxies for vulnerability, and on the few occasions that…
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Experience and Expression: Social and Cultural Significance in the Fear of Crime
This paper argues that to ignore the social meaning that constitutes public perceptions of crime is to offer a shallow picture of the fear of crime-and survey research need not do either. Examining…
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Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police
Public confidence in policing has become an important issue in the UK. The police rely on legitimacy and public support, and initiatives to improve levels of confidence are currently underway. The…
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Public Confidence in Policing: A Neo-Durkheimian Perspective
Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social-psychological processes that underpin…
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Does the Fear of Debt Deter Students from Higher Education?
Concerns over the impact of debt on participation in higher education (HE) have dominated much of the debate surrounding the most recent reforms of financial support for full-time students in…
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Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing.
TLDR
Drawing on data from the 2003/2004 British Crime Survey and the 2006/2007 London Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods Survey, this paper suggests that people think about their local police in ways less to do with the risk of victimization and more toDo with judgments of social cohesion and moral consensus.
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Validating New Measures of the Fear of Crime
This study assesses the scaling properties of some new measures of the fear of crime. The new conceptualization—a range of distinct but related constructs that constitute the fear of crime—comprises…
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Introducing Fear of Crime to Risk Research
  • J. Jackson
  • Psychology, Sociology
    Risk analysis : an official publication of the…
  • 1 February 2006
TLDR
The article advances the argument that fear of crime may be an individual response to community social order and a generalized attitude toward the moral trajectory of society.
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Officers as Mirrors Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity
Encounters with the criminal justice system shape people's perceptions of the legitimacy of legal authorities, and the dominant explanatory framework for this relationship revolves around the idea…
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