ABSTRACT In their paper Beyond Procedural Justice, Bottoms and Tankebe specified two interrelated dimensions of legitimacy: audience legitimacy and self-legitimacy. Criminologists have given considerable attention to audience legitimacy, but police officers’ belief in their own legitimacy remains understudied. This paper extends Bottoms and Tankebe’s theory and reports findings on some of its key propositions, using survey data from a UK police force. Three key findings emerge. First, contrary to previous studies, feelings of recognition by supervisors and clientele did not predict self-legitimacy; self-legitimacy was found to depend on feelings of peer recognition and acceptance. Second, self-legitimacy predicted officers’ commitment to external procedural justice but not their moral orientations towards crime victims. Finally, perceived police effectiveness but not supervisor recognition – that is, internal procedural justice – was the key predictor both of external procedural justice and of normative orientations towards crime victims. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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在他们自己的眼中：对警察自我合法性的实证检验

摘要 在他们的论文 Beyond Procedural Justice 中，Bottoms 和 Tankebe 详细说明了合法性的两个相互关联的维度：受众合法性和自我合法性。犯罪学家对观众的合法性给予了相当大的关注，但警察对自己合法性的信念仍未得到充分研究。本文扩展了Bottoms 和Tankebe 的理论，并使用英国警察部队的调查数据报告了其一些关键命题的发现。出现了三个关键发现。首先，与之前的研究相反，主管和客户的认可感并不能预测自我合法性；发现自我合法性取决于同伴认可和接受的感觉。其次，自我合法性预测官员对外部程序正义的承诺，而不是他们对犯罪受害者的道德取向。最后，感知到的警察有效性而不是监督者认可——即内部程序正义——是外部程序正义和对犯罪受害者的规范取向的关键预测因素。讨论了这些发现的含义。