Reported Compliance with Police in Mongolia and the United States

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar III

Abstract

Officers’ communicative practices are potent predictors of civilians’ attributed trust in police, and their perceived likelihood of compliance. The present study continued this line of work in Mongolia and the USA. The results revealed that for the Mongolian sample, both a direct relationship was evident between officer accommodation and compliance, and an indirect path was found through trust. This has been the first cultural context where both direct and indirect paths have been identified.

Authors

• Charles Choi, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Valerie Barker, San Diego State Univ

• Chris Hajek, University of Texas, San Antonio