What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police
legitimate in the eyes of the policed? What builds trust,
legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond between
police and the public? These questions are central to current
debates concerning the relationship between the British police and
the public it serves. Yet, in the context of British policing they
are seldom asked explicitly, still less examined in depth. Drawing
on psychological and sociological explanatory paradigms, Just
Authority? presents a cutting-edge empirical study into public
trust, police legitimacy, and people's readiness to cooperate with
officers. It represents, first, the most detailed test to date of
Tom Tyler's procedural justice model attempted outside the United
States. Second, it uncovers the social ecology of trust and
legitimacy and, third, it describes the relationships between
trust, legitimacy and cooperation. This book contains many
important lessons for practitioners, policy-makers and academics.
As elsewhere the dominant vision of policing in Great Britain
continues to stress instrumental effectiveness: the 'fight against
crime' will be won by pro-active and even aggressive policing. In
line with work from the United States and elsewhere, Just
Authority? casts significant doubt on such claims. When people find
policing to be unfair, disrespectful and careless of human dignity,
not only is trust lost, legitimacy is also damaged and cooperation
is withdrawn as a result. Absent such public support, the job of
the police is made harder and the avowed objectives of less crime
and disorder placed ever further from reach.
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