Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing

1. Front Matter

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2. Why Police Should Care About Procedural Justice and Legitimacy

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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3. Getting a Little More PJ in Your Day

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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4. Outcomes of PJ Policing

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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5. PJ Dialog for Frontline Police: Introducing QCET

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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6. Trials and Tribulations of Doing PJ: The Black Box of QCET

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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7. Barriers to Implementing PJ

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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8. Scaling Up and Expanding Out: Future Directions for PJ in Policing

   • Lorraine Mazerolle, Elise Sargeant, Adrian Cherney, Sarah Bennett, Kristina Murphy, Emma Antrobus et al.

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9. Back Matter

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This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including:

·         problem-oriented policing

·         patrol

·         restorative justice

·         reassurance policing

·         and community policing.

Through these examples, the authors also examine some of the barriers for implementing procedurally just ways of interacting with citizens, and offer practical suggestions for reform. This work will be of interest for researchers in criminology and criminal justice focused on policing as well as policymakers.

• Administration of Justice
• Community Policing
• Enhancing Police Legitimacy
• Problem-oriented Policing
• Procedural Justice
• Restorative Justice

• Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

  Lorraine Mazerolle

• Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

  Elise Sargeant, Sarah Bennett, Emma Antrobus

• School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

  Adrian Cherney

• School of Criminology and Criminal Justi Bldg M10, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia

  Kristina Murphy

• Operations Support Command, Queensland Police Service, Brisbane, Australia

  Peter Martin

Lorraine Mazerolle is a Research Professor in the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Queensland and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is also the Foundation Director and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), a Chief Investigator in the Drug Policy Modelling Program, and the ISSR “Policing and Security” Program Director. Professor Mazerolle leads a team of highly talented research scholars with expertise in experimental criminology, urban criminological theories, survey methods, advanced multi-level statistics and spatial statistics. She is the recipient of numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as community regulation, problem-oriented policing, police technologies, civil remedies, street-level drug enforcement and policing public housing sites. Professor Mazerolle is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, immediate past President of the Academy, foundation Vice President of the American Society of Criminology Division of Experimental Criminology and author of scholarly books and articles on policing, drug law enforcement, third party policing, regulatory crime control, displacement of crime and crime prevention.

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