Trust in the Law: Encouraging Public Cooperation with the Police and Courts

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The argument outlined in this volume is based on a study conducted in Oakland and Los Angeles, California, and is further supported by several survey-based datasets collected as part of our own and others' research. We would like to thank all those who have supported this program of research, whether by assisting us in designing and implementing our own studies or by allowing us to analyze their datasets. The California study was supported by a grant from the Law and Social Science Program of the National Science Foundation (SBR-9511719 ) and supplemented with funding from the American Bar Foundation , under the directorship of Bryant Garth. These grants were jointly awarded to E. Allan Lind. Further funding was provided by the Public Policy Institute of California, under President David W. Lyon. John Ellwood, Andrew Isserman, Robert MacCoun, and Mike Teitz from the Public Policy Institute of California provided valuable help and feedback on the project. Karen Garrett, Yuteh Cheng, Jeff Royal, and Madonna Carnel, all from the Survey Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley, helped to design and implement the survey, which was also fielded by the Survey Research Center. The initial findings of the California study were reported in Huo and Tyler (2000) and Tyler (2001e). The 1997 sample of residents of high-crime areas in Oakland, California , described in chapter 13, was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ-95-IJ-CX0046) to Jerome Skolnick, Jose Canelo-Cocho, and Tom Tyler. The Chicago panel dataset was supported by a grant from the Law and Social Science Program of the National Science Foundation (SES-83-10199) and by additional funding from the American Bar Foundation whenJohn Heinz was director. The primary findings of that study are reported in Tyler (1990). The first national sample of the public used to assess views of the courts was funded by a Hearst Foundation grant to the National Center xii Trust in the Law for State Courts. The second national sample of the public was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice to the National Center for State Courts. We thank David Rottman of the National Center for State Courts for allowing us access to these datasets. Initial analyses of these data are reported in Tyler (2001e, 2001£). We would like to thank the Russell Sage Foundation and its director, Eric Wanner, for giving the senior author a visiting scholar appointment , which allowed him to complete an initial draft of this manuscript. During that appointment the project benefited from feedback during presentations to visiting scholars at the Russell Sage Foundation and to the Working Group on Trust (Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi). Finally, many colleagues provided feedback during preliminary presentations of our findings. We made such presentations at the Organizational Psychology Program of Baruch College; the Research in Progress SeminarSeries ofthe National Institute ofJustice; the Research Seminar on Organizational Theory and Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; the MacArthur Foundation Network on Juvenile Justice; the Justice Department Conference on the Police Use ofDeadly Force; and the Law Program ofthe ResearchSchool ofthe Social Sciences at Australian National University. We would also like to thank John Darley, Wayne Kerstetter, Doris Lambertz, and Robert MacCoun, who provided helpful comments and advice throughout this project. We have discussed some aspects of these findings in earlier papers. The policy implications of the California findings are outlined in Huo and Tyler (2000), a report publishedby the Public Policy Institute ofCalifornia . The issue of trust is examined by Tyler (2001e) in a special issue of the Boston University Law Review. The question of general support for legal authorities, the topic of chapter 13, is also discussed by Tyler (2001f) in a special issue of Law and the Behavioral Sciences. Finally, the issue of superordinate and subgroup identification is addressed in Huo and Tyler (2001). A number of people provided helpful feedback on this manuscript. We would like to thank Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, Margaret Levi, Stephanie Platz, Bruce Western, and two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions for improvements in earlier drafts. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. 9996364. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ...