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Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

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Prof. Robert E. Worden
2017
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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 better trust the police 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 seemingly offers a 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.
 

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

pp. xi-xii

1. The Procedural Justice Model as Reform

pp. 1-13

2. Police Departments as Institutionalized Organizations

pp. 14-41

3. Police Legitimacy

pp. 42-68

4. Procedural Justice in Citizens’ Subjective Experiences

pp. 69-87

5. Citizens’ Dissatisfaction in Their Own Words

pp. 88-100

6. Procedural Justice in Police Action

pp. 101-129

7. Citizens’ Subjective Experience and Police Action

pp. 130-148

8. Procedural Justice and Management Accountability

pp. 149-165

9. Procedural Justice and Street-Level Sensemaking

pp. 166-177

10. Reflections on Police Reform

pp. 178-196

Methodological Appendix

pp. 197-208

Notes

pp. 209-215

References

pp. 217-233

Index

pp. 235-254

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