Why Do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions

By J. Jackson, B. Bradford, M. Hough, A. Myhill, P. Quinton, Tom Tyler. 2012

837 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Law, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Law

1. Anthony A. Braga
2. Scott E. Wolfe
3. R. Kaminski
4. Justin Nix
5. Jeff Rojek
6. J. Jackson
7. B. Bradford
8. Aziz Z Huq

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Tom Tyler
2. Scott E. Wolfe
3. Justin Nix
4. J. Jackson
5. Aziz Z Huq
6. B. Bradford
7. Yuning Wu
8. K. Hohl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Bradford
2. J. Jackson
3. Anthony A. Braga
4. Justin Nix
5. Scott E. Wolfe
6. Aziz Z Huq
7. Tom Tyler
8. K. Hohl

Citations in the corpus

• Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes toward the Acceptability of Violence (2013, background): “This is a heavily policed subpopulation in which we expect to find significant contact with the police, and therefore significant variation in attitudes toward the police (cf. Bradford et al., 2009; Bradford & Myhill, 2011; Jackson et al., 2012a; Skogan, 2006; Tyler & Fagan, 2008).”
• Why do ‘the law’ comply? Procedural justice, group identification and officer motivation in police organizations (2014, background): “It is well established that the fairness of legal authorities – particularly the police – is linked to public propensities to defer to and cooperate with those authorities; procedural justice, and the legitimacy it generates, has also been linked to compliance with the law (Tyler, 2006, 2011; Tyler ”
• Legitimating Practices: Revisiting the Predicates of Police Legitimacy (2016, background): “Links between legitimacy, compliance and cooperation have been shown to be portable across divergent policing contexts and in different national contexts, including the United Kingdom (Jackson et al. 2012a; Tankebe 2013), Africa (Tankebe 2009; Bradford et al. 2014; Jackson et al. 2014), Israel (Jona”
• Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes (2017, neutral): “Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that legal cynicism is correlated with crime and violence (Fagan and Piquero 2007; Jackson et al. 2012; Kirk and Papachristos 2011; Nivette et al. 2015; Sampson and Bartusch 1998; Reisig, Wolfe, and Holtfreter 2011).”
• Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Public Cooperation with Police (2017, background): “Although Tyler’s work has garnered much research attention, this vein of investigation remains largely a Western phenomenon, drawing upon data from such established democracies as the United States, the U.K., and Australia (e.g., Hinds and Murphy 2007; Jackson et al. 2012; Sunshine and Tyler 2003).”
• The Salience of Social Contextual Factors in Appraisals of Police Interactions with Citizens: A Randomized Factorial Experiment (2014, background): “Further, Jackson et al. (2012) found that people accept the police’s right to dictate appropriate behavior not only when they feel a duty to obey officers, but also when they believe that the institution acts according to a shared moral purpose with citizens.”
• Norm Perception as a Vehicle for Social Change (2016, background): “Although most citizens are not aware of and do not understand specific laws or rulings (Robinson & Darley, 2003), when institutions are legitimate, citizens may infer that the decisions of lawmakers comply with or drive the direction of the society (Jackson et al., 2012; Tyler & Jackson, 2014).”
• Procedural justice policing and citizen compliance behaviour: the importance of emotion (2015, neutral): “The present study also replicated the well-established link in the policing literature between procedural justice and compliance behaviour (e.g., Tyler, 1990; Jackson et al., 2012).”
• Obeying the Rules of the Road (2015, background): “Instead, normative compliance – fostered in part by the experience of procedurally fair and legitimate policing – seems to be a more powerful force Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2530633 3     (Tyler, 2011a, 2011b).”
• The Social and Developmental Antecedents of Legal Cynicism (2015, background): “…higher violent crime rates (Kirk and Papachristos 2011), a lack of collective efficacy (Kirk and Matsuda 2011), self-reported criminal behaviors (Fagan and Piquero 2007; Jackson et al. 2012; Reisig et al. 2011), and lower desistance from intimate partner violence (Emery, Jolley, and Wu 2011).”
• Race and Perceptions of Police: Experimental Results on the Impact of Procedural (In)Justice (2017, neutral): “…willingness to obey the law and comply with the directives of legal authorities (Fagan & Tyler, 2004; Hinds & Murphy, 2007; Hough, Jackson, & Bradford, 2013; Jackson et al., 2012; Mazerolle, Bennett, et al., 2013; Sunshine & Tyler, 2003; Tyler, 2006; Tyler & Fagan, 2008; Tyler & Huo, 2002).”
• Trust in the Police (2015, background): “This finding expands on the rather limited, yet growing literature on the antecedents of trust in the police (Jackson et al., 2012; Sargeant et al., 2013; Tyler, 2005; Tyler & Huo, 2002).”