Why Do Criminals Obey the Law? The Influence of Legitimacy and Social Networks on Active Gun Offenders

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Community Perceptions of Police Body-Worn Cameras (2017, background): “As Papachristos, Meares, and Fagan (2012) and others have observed, compliance with the law is best secured when people believe that those who are enforcing the law have the legitimate authority to tell them what to do. gallup polls, however, show the public’s confidence in police work has not seen…”
Obeying the Rules of the Road (2015, methodology): “Procedural justice encourages not just the belief that institutions have “a just, fair, and valid basis of legal authority” (Papachristos et al., 2012: 417) but also identification with the group that the authority represents (see below).”
Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes toward the Acceptability of Violence (2013, unknown): “To our knowledge only Papachristos et al. (2012) has linked perceived police legitimacy to actual (self-reported) violent behaviour (carrying a gun and getting into a fight).”