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Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Helping the Police Fight Crime

Results From a Survey of Jamaican Adolescents

Michael D. Reisig

Arizona State University, reisig{at}asu.edu

Camille Lloyd

Gallup, Inc

Drawing on procedural justice theory and research, this study uses survey data from a sample of Jamaican high school students (N = 289) to evaluate hypotheses derived from the process-based model of policing. Findings reveal that the correlation between procedural justice judgments and police legitimacy is positive and statistically significant. Students who rate police practices more favorably in terms of procedural justice also report a greater willingness to help the police fight crime (e.g., report suspicious activity to the police) in their community. In combination, the findings show that these two key process-based model hypotheses generalize to the Jamaican context. Although the correlation between police legitimacy and behavioral cooperation is in the expected direction, the relationship is not statistically significant. The findings also show that students from impoverished local communities dominated by "area dons" are less willing to help the police fight crime.

Key Words: procedural justice • legitimacy • police • Jamaica • area dons • West Indies

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Police Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1, 42-62 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1098611108327311
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