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Author Worden, Robert E., author

Title Mirage of police reform : procedural justice and police legitimacy / Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017
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Contents The procedural justice model as reform -- Police departments as institutionalized organizations -- Police legitimacy -- Procedural justice in citizens' subjective experiences -- Citizens' dissatisfaction in their own words -- Procedural justice in police action -- Citizens' subjective experience and police action -- Procedural justice and management accountability -- Procedural justice and street-level sense-making -- Reflections on police reform -- Methodological appendix
Summary "In the United States, the exercise of police authority--and the public's trust that police authority is used properly--is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory"--Provided by publisher
Analysis accountability
american citizens
american police
citizens and police
citizens
cops
decision making
justice system
law and order
law enforcement
legal issues
police action
police department
police legitimacy
police procedure
police reform
police system
policing
procedural justice model
procedural justice
reformation
social issues
social studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Police-community relations -- United States
Police administration -- United States
Criminology: legal aspects.
Jurisprudence and general issues.
Law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Police administration
Police-community relations
United States
Form Electronic book
Author McLean, Sarah J., 1971- author.
ISBN 9780520965966
0520965965