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Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice

European Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Gorazd Meško

    1. Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Maribor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  2. Justice Tankebe

    1. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  • Examines how the transition to democracy impacts the perceived legitimacy of police and criminal justice institutions

  • Provides practical solutions for improving police legitimacy

  • Offers a theoretical framework with applied case studies

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Trust in Transition: Legitimacy of Criminal Justice in Transitional Societies

      • Susanne Karstedt
      Pages 3-31

    3. Sentencing, Legitimacy, and Public Opinion

      • Julian V. Roberts, Mojca M. Plesničar
      Pages 33-51

    4. Procedural Justice for Victims in an International Perspective

      • Jan van Dijk
      Pages 53-64

    5. Empowering the Victims of Crime: A Real Goal of the Criminal Justice System or No More Than a Pipe Dream?

      • Witold Klaus, Konrad Buczkowski, Paulina Wiktorska
      Pages 65-91

    6. Is Legitimacy Police Property?

      • Paul Ponsaers
      Pages 93-110

    7. Lost in Transition: Criminal Justice Reforms and the Crises of Legitimacy in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Benjamin Flander, Aleš Bučar Ručman
      Pages 111-133

  3. Exploring Trust and Legitimacy in Police

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Empirical Legitimacy as Two Connected Psychological States

      • Jonathan Jackson, Mike Hough, Ben Bradford, Jouni Kuha
      Pages 137-160

    3. Assessing Validity of Different Legitimacy Constructs Applying Structural Equation Modeling

      • Jerneja Šifrer, Gorazd Meško, Matevž Bren
      Pages 161-187

    4. Do We Trust Them? Public Opinion on Police Work in Plural Policing Environments in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Branko Lobnikar, Andrej Sotlar, Maja Modic
      Pages 189-202

    5. Trust in the German Police: Determinants and Consequences for Reporting Behavior

      • Nathalie Guzy, Helmut Hirtenlehner
      Pages 203-229

    6. Legitimacy of Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Results from a Cross-National Law Student Survey

      • Gorazd Meško, Katja Eman
      Pages 231-260

    7. Police Self-Legitimacy, Use of Force, and Pro-organizational Behavior in Slovenia

      • Justice Tankebe, Gorazd Meško
      Pages 261-277

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 279-293
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About this book

The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy, and the ways in which perceptions of police legitimacy relate to compliance with the law.

Following these case studies, the authors provide recommendations for improving police legitimacy and controlling crime, in these particular sociopolitical environments, where the police are often associated with previous military or paramilitary roles. The techniques used by these researchers may be applied to studies for policing in other regions, with potential applications within Europe and beyond. Chapters present topical issues of crime, crime control and human emotions regarding crime, criminals, law enforcement and punishment in contemporary societies.

This book will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as political science and public policy.  

This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in procedural justice and legitimacy, encounters between citizens and the state, the effectiveness of governmental institutions, and democratic development. It stands alone in its broad, cross-national contributions to understanding these issues.

-Wesley G. Skogan, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Maribor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Gorazd Meško

  • Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Justice Tankebe

About the editors

Gorazd Meško, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminology and Dean at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. He has recently edited Handbook on Policing in central and Eastern Europe (2013, with Charles B. Fields, Branko Lobnikar and Andrej Sotlar). His current research interests include crime prevention, provision of safety/security, and legitimacy. E-mail: gorazd.mesko@fvv.uni-mb.si Justice Tankebe, Ph.D., is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, U. K. Some of his research has appeared in Criminology, Law & Society Review, and the British Journal of Criminology. His books include Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Explorations (forthcoming, edited with Alison Liebling) and Legitimacy, Social Order and Criminal Justice (co-authored with Tony Bottoms).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice

  • Book Subtitle: European Perspectives

  • Editors: Gorazd Meško, Justice Tankebe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09813-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09812-8Published: 01 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38048-3Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09813-5Published: 18 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 293

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political Science

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