Procedural justice theory predicts a relationship between police behaviour, individuals’ normative evaluation of police and decisions to comply with laws. Yet, prior studies of procedural justice have rather narrowly defined the potentially relevant predicates of police behaviour. This study expands the scope of procedural justice theory by considering a broad array of policing components, including unobserved actions such as electronic surveillance, respecting the limits of one’s legal authority, and the unequal or equal distribution of policing resources between different groups. Analysing data from a national probability sample of adults in England and Wales, we (1) present a comprehensive investigation of the heterogeneous elements of policing related to legitimacy judgments and (2) contribute to debate about the nature of legitimacy.

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合法化实践：重新审视警察合法性的谓词

程序正义理论预测了警察行为、个人对警察的规范性评价和遵守法律的决定之间的关系。然而，先前对程序正义的研究相当狭隘地定义了警察行为的潜在相关谓词。本研究通过考虑一系列广泛的警务组成部分扩展了程序正义理论的范围，包括电子监视等未被观察到的行为，尊重个人法律权力的限制，以及不同群体之间警务资源的不平等或平等分配。分析来自英格兰和威尔士成年人的全国概率样本的数据，我们 (1) 对与合法性判断相关的警务异质元素进行了全面调查，(2) 为关于合法性本质的辩论做出了贡献。