The Measurement of Police Legitimacy: Applying the Process-Based Model in Ukraine

• In Event: Police Legitimacy I

Abstract

Few theories in criminal justice have drawn as much scholarly interest over the last few decades as the process-based model of police legitimacy developed by Tom Tyler and colleagues. The empirical case for the theory is well established in the US, UK, and Australia, but the few stringent tests of the model outside those developed countries have questioned whether the key findings of procedural justice predicting legitimacy and public cooperation is true in the developing world. This study based on a 2013 survey of more than 4,000 residents in three Ukrainian cities seeks to determine how well the assumptions and predictions of the legitimacy model fits survey data from Ukraine.

Authors

• Robert Patrick Peacock, Michigan State University

• Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Michigan State University