Objectives:

This study examines whether police behavior that signals higher quality of treatment or decision-making leads to higher perceived procedural justice.

Methods:

Analyses are based on data collected during police traffic controls of moped drivers in two Dutch cities over a period of six months. Police behavior was measured through systematic social observation (SSO), and data on perceived procedural justice were collected through face-to-face interviews immediately after the encounters. Linear regression analysis with bootstrap estimates was used (n = 218), with an overall perceived procedural justice scale as the dependent variable in all regressions. Independent variables included an overall observed procedural justice index and four separate scales of police treatment and decision-making.

Results:

We find no evidence that police behavior that signals fairer treatment or decision-making leads to higher perceived procedural justice.

Conclusions:

Our findings add to the currently very limited empirical evidence on an important question, and raise questions about a central idea, that more procedurally just treatment and decision making by authorities leads to an increase in perceived procedural justice and enhanced compliance. The first of these requires more research.

中文翻译：

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警察待遇和决策对程序正义认知的影响：一项实地研究

目标：

本研究考察了表明更高质量的治疗或决策的警察行为是否会导致更高的程序正义感。

方法：

分析基于警察在六个月内对两个荷兰城市的轻便摩托车驾驶员进行交通管制期间收集的数据。警察的行为是通过系统的社会观察 (SSO) 来衡量的，并且在遭遇后立即通过面对面的采访收集关于感知程序正义的数据。使用引导估计的线性回归分析（n = 218），将整体感知的程序正义量表作为所有回归中的因变量。自变量包括总体观察到的程序正义指数和四个独立的警察待遇和决策量表。

结果：

我们没有发现任何证据表明表明更公平待遇或决策的警察行为会导致更高的程序正义感。

结论：

我们的研究结果补充了目前关于一个重要问题的非常有限的经验证据，并提出了关于一个中心思想的问题，即当局在程序上更加公正的对待和决策会导致程序正义感的增加和合规性的提高。其中第一个需要更多的研究。