The Impact of Negative Publicity on Police Self-legitimacy

By Justin Nix, Scott E. Wolfe. 2017

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e2f4688a59632e73a0c8b5a41c173f8de76481b0

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In Gender Studies

1. Justin Nix

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Bradley A. Campbell
2. E. Maguire
3. Justin Nix

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Bradley A. Campbell
2. E. Maguire
3. Justin Nix

Citations in the corpus

• A War on Cops? The Effects of Ferguson on the Number of U.S. Police Officers Murdered in the Line of Duty (2017, background): “With respect to the police, Nix and Wolfe (2015) found that reduced motivation as a result of negative publicity in the six months after Ferguson was associated with lower levels of officer selflegitimacy (i.e., the confidence they have in the authority vested in them; see Bottoms & Tankebe, 2012).”
• Sensitivity to the Ferguson Effect: The role of managerial organizational justice (2016, unknown): “Indeed, Nix and Wolfe (2015) demonstrated that reduced motivation due to negative publicity in the months following Ferguson was associated with lower levels of self-legitimacy among officers in their sample.”