Legitimacy and Procedural Justice

Question 1

What is the carding issue? What does it address?

Answer 1

• the carding issue is the fact that people are being stopped on personal factors
• > there is no supporting intelligence or info

-it can be on the basis of stereotyped images of certain groups

Question 2

What are the four components of procedural justice

Answer 2

1) Participation or Voice
- >one’s side of the story has been considered when decision are made

2) Neutrality
- >no personal biases

3) Conveying trustworthy motives
- >showing care and concern for citizens’ well being

4) Dignity
- >treatment with respect and upholding citizens rights

Question 3

What is Tom Tyler’s stance on teachable moments

Answer 3

• every encounter the public has with the police should be treated as a socialising experience
• > it either builds or undermines legitimacy

Question 4

Legitimacy based model

Answer 4

Legitimacy

• > lawfulness
• > distributed justice
• > procedural justice
• > effectiveness
• specifically it looks at the variation with which individuals feel the need to comply with the law
• > less likely to comply with the law means that the person will be more likely to break them

Question 5

Who will accept police decisions?

Answer 5

• those who got good quality of treatment will accept the most
• then quality of decision making ranks second
• third is whether the favoured outcome is achieved
• last is the distributive justice factor

Question 6

What is distributive justice

Answer 6

-It is the belief that the decision or outcomes the police receive are fair

• so that included
• > fair pay
• > promotion
• > transfers
• > duty assignment
• > disciplinary action

Question 7

What does the social disorganization theory define

Answer 7

• it defines the inability of a community structure to:
• > realize common values of its residents
• > inability to maintain effective social controls

Question 8

What is the main idea that the social disorganization theory promotes

Answer 8

• it promotes the idea that location matters
• > person’s residential location shapes whether that person will become involved in illegal activities
• residential location is as significant as the person’s individual characteristics
• > youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods participate in a subculture which approves of delinquency

Question 9

What are the four conclusions of the Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers article

Answer 9

1) black middle class neighbourhoods have higher poverty rates than white middle class neighbourhoods
- >they are closer to the poverty areas

2) High proportion of low-income residents
- >unstable middle class
- >thus crime is an attractive option to minority of residents within the neighbourhood

3) Residents in Groveland have formed strong primary and institutional ties
- >this is due to home ownership and residential stability

4)These primary and institutional ties thwart efforts to totally rid neighbourhoods of gangs and drugs.