Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice European Perspectives
The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards poli
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Gorazd Mesˇko • Justice Tankebe Editors
Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice European Perspectives
Editors Gorazd Mesˇko Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security University of Maribor Maribor, Ljubljana Slovenia
Justice Tankebe Institute of Criminology University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-09812-8 ISBN 978-3-319-09813-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09813-5 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014954232 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Criminal Justice in Europe: A Study of Aspects of Trust and Legitimacy Legitimacy and trust are not new concepts to criminology. For example, in Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi (1969: 127) hypothesized and tested the influence of legitimacy on delinquency: “If a person feels no emotional attachment to a person or institution, the rules of that person or institution tend to be denied legitimacy.” However, it was Tyler’s work that has sparked the explosion in research on trust and legitimacy over the last two decades. Tyler’s Why People Obey the Law
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