Objectives:

Treatment by law enforcement officers, as representatives of the state that interact with individual citizens, may signal to individuals their political and social inclusion within society. Hispanics, as the largest minority group in the country that oftentimes must navigate two cultural identities, may be especially sensitive to the treatment of police. We test the group engagement model’s implication that procedural justice—or lack thereof—may promote or hinder attachment to the United States and/or Mexico among Latino/a adolescents and young adults.

Methods:

Using a fixed effects panel design with a subsample of Mexican Americans from the Pathways to Desistance Study, we examine whether changes in subjective procedural justice evaluations of the police are related to changes in National identification.

Results:

Changes in procedural justice perceptions are significantly related to changes in Mexican identification, whereas procedural justice is not related to changes in Anglo identification. Although, consistent with segmented assimilation theory, the relationships between changes in procedural justice and Mexican/Anglo identification may be stronger among participants born in the United States.

Conclusions:

The findings are generally consistent with the group engagement model of procedural justice and suggest procedural injustice may alienate Hispanics.

中文翻译：

---

包容性和边缘化的程序性（以内）公正性：来自墨西哥裔美国青少年纵向样本的证据

目标：

执法人员作为与个人公民互动的国家代表而受到的待遇，可能会向个人发出他们在社会中的政治和社会包容的信号。西班牙裔美国人是该国最大的少数族裔群体，通常必须驾驭两种文化身份，他们对警察的待遇尤其敏感。我们测试了团体参与模型的含义，即程序公正（或缺乏程序公正）可能促进或阻碍拉丁裔/青少年和年轻人对美国和/或墨西哥的依恋。

方法：

我们使用固定效应专家组设计以及从“通往疾病之路”研究中的墨西哥裔美国人子样本，我们研究了警方对主观程序正义评估的变化是否与国民身分的变化有关。

结果：

程序正义观念的变化与墨西哥身份的变化显着相关，而程序正义与盎格鲁身份的变化无关。尽管符合分段同化理论，但在美国出生的参与者中，程序正义的变化与墨西哥/盎格鲁身份之间的关系可能更强。

结论：

调查结果总体上与程序正义的团体参与模型一致，并暗示程序不公可能会疏远西班牙裔美国人。