ABSTRACT The current study uses data collected from defendants immediately after their hearings to test hypotheses regarding the relations among constructs relevant to perceptions of the state courts. Taking the Integrated Framework of Legitimacy as its guide, this research hypothesizes that trustworthiness assessments will mediate the effect of procedural fairness (as experienced from both the judge and court staff), distributive justice, and court performance on trust which will then mediate the effect of trustworthiness on willingness to engage. This research therefore contributes to the literature a test of the propositions of the framework in the state court context but further advances the literature by testing the invariance of the model across race, gender, and incarceration status. Thus, the current work tests differences, not only in the levels of these constructs but also in the magnitude and existence of relations among them, a generally overlooked aspect of courts research.

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合法性综合框架在州法院环境中的应用

摘要 当前的研究使用在听证会后立即从被告那里收集的数据来检验关于与州法院感知相关的构念之间关系的假设。本研究以合法性综合框架为指导，假设可信度评估将调节程序公平（法官和法院工作人员都经历过）、分配公正和法院绩效对信任的影响，然后将调解信任的影响。参与意愿的可信度。因此，这项研究为文献提供了在州法院背景下对该框架命题的测试，但通过测试模型跨种族、性别和监禁状态的不变性进一步推进了文献。因此，当前的工作测试差异，