Abstract This study is the first to assess citizen willingness to empower the police in the Caribbean. The study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of Jamaican citizens. Using data from a survey of Jamaican citizens, procedural justice and educational level predicted police empowerment; obligation to obey, age, sex, police effectiveness, and risk of sanctioning did not. The study’s findings point to the importance of the process-based model of policing in different geopolitical contexts. Specifically, the study addresses why procedural justice, a normative model, may engender willingness to empower the police in this group of Jamaican citizens. This finding is important because normative models generally exert a stronger influence than instrumental models in advanced democracies, whereas the opposite is the case in emerging democracies and postcolonial societies, such as Jamaica. The implications for policing, policy, and future research are discussed.

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治安方面的规范性和工具性因素对赋予警察权力的意愿的相对影响：牙买加的一项研究

摘要这项研究是第一个评估公民增强加勒比警察能力的意愿。该研究考察了规范和工具性警务模式对牙买加公民样本中赋予警察权力的意愿的相对影响。利用对牙买加公民的调查数据，程序正义和教育水平预测了警察的权力；没有遵守义务，年龄，性别，警察效力和制裁风险。该研究的发现指出了在不同的地缘政治背景下基于过程的警务模型的重要性。具体而言，该研究探讨了为什么程序正义（一种规范性模型）可能会导致愿意为这组牙买加公民中的警察赋权。这一发现很重要，因为在先进的民主国家，规范模型通常比工具模型具有更强的影响力，而在新兴的民主国家和后殖民社会，例如牙买加，情况则相反。讨论了对政策，政策和未来研究的影响。