scholarly journals Procedural justice, compliance with the law and police stop-and-search: a study of young people in England and Scotland

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Kath Murray ◽  
Susan McVie ◽  
Diego Farren ◽  
Lauren Herlitz ◽  
Mike Hough ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Stop And Search

Ethics, justice and policing

Good Policing ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Mike Hough
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Normative Foundation ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law

This chapter explores ethical issues that are raised by procedural justice approaches to policing. Both in individual contacts between police and public and at a societal level, problems can result from the use of low-visibility techniques for securing compliance. There is a risk that people’s choices about compliance with the law are being reshaped by stealth: their autonomy as citizens may be eroded when police officers manage them into compliance through a display of civility and respect. At a societal level, the appearance of the police as an even-handed and fair institution can serve as an ‘ideological cloak’ that hides from public view structural inequality and unfairness. The chapter argues that these risks can be mitigated if police commit to the normative foundation of procedural justice, and do not simply focus on the instrumental benefits of the approach. They need to recognise their duty to treat citizens fairly and with respect.

scholarly journals The Effect of Penal Legitimacy on Prisoners’ Postrelease Desistance

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 917-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel McCarthy ◽  
Ian Brunton-Smith
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Formal Rules

Studies of procedural justice and legitimacy have shown that where legal actors use formal rules in ways that are perceived to be fair and consistent by those policed, greater compliance with the law can be achieved. A number of studies have assessed how legitimacy and compliance are related using general population samples, but few have tested these links among offending groups. Drawing on data from a longitudinal survey of prisoners across England and Wales, we find that prisoners who perceive their experience of prison as legitimate are more likely to believe that they will desist from crime. However, despite the existence of desistance beliefs, these do not translate into similar effects of legitimacy on proven reconviction rates a year post release.

Characteristics of Youths Arrested for Drunk Driving in Two Wisconsin Counties 1981–1984

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1271-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Gurnack ◽  
Daniel L. Werbie
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Blood Alcohol ◽  
Young Drivers ◽  
Lower Blood ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Alcohol Dependent

As young people constitute a disproportionate share of convicted intoxicated drivers, it is necessary to identify those factors related to age which can give some indication as to their potential for rehabilitation. In a study conducted in two Wisconsin counties (Racine and Kenosha), young drivers were less likely to be repeated offenders, less likely to be sent to treatment than the traffic safety alternative, less likely to be assessed as alcohol-dependent, more likely to be out of compliance with the law, and tended mote often to be arrested with lower blood alcohol concentrations (BAC).

scholarly journals Re-Thinking Procedural Justice Theory Through Stop and Search: Shame, Anger, and Police Legitimacy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Scrase
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Explanatory Gap ◽  
Justice Theory ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Stop And Search

Abstract Stop and search has been argued to have a damaging impact upon trust in police and compliance with the law. Procedural Justice Theory has sought to explain this relation through perceptions of (un)fairness leading to the production of (il)legitimacy and to dispositions to (dis)obey. The article proposes a theoretical framework to supplement an explanatory gap in this theory, namely why perceptions of unfairness might lead to anti-police dispositions or attitudes. Ethnographic research is employed to elucidate the relevance of affective, emotional, and cognitive mechanisms in relation to the practice of stop and search. The article argues that the normative representation of the suspect by police and the disempowerment or removal of the subject’s agency at the hands of police contain the capacity to reveal a disparity between self-understanding and social recognition: the central affective condition for shame. Transformations of this affective experience into anger defend self-esteem by positioning the police as at fault, questioning the claim to authority, and simultaneously constructing the expressive drive to mistrust and confront the goal-obstacle to self-esteem.

Analysis of the executive discipline of medical and pharmaceutical experts compliance with the law in the field of trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Ольга Давыдова ◽  
Ol'ga Davydova ◽  
Лариса Царахова ◽  
Larisa Carahova ◽  
Ирина Левкова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Practical Medicine ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Narcotic Drugs

The activity of trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances is inextricably linked with medical and pharmaceutical activities.Analysis of the executive discipline by medical and pharmaceutical specialists in compliance with the law in the field of trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances revealed the most problematic aspects of the activity and the need to revise certain aspects of regulatory and legal activities, based on the modern requirements of practical medicine and pharmacy.

Defensive Deterrence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yishai Beer
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
The Military

This chapter deals with the lack of coherency between strategic reality—which uses deterrence as an essential strategic tool—and the prevailing law. Deterrence is a tool for enforcing compliance with the law; it promotes the containment of potential conflicts. It is pivotal in strategic thinking and, in many cases, an essential component of the national-defense strategy of law-abiding states. But although deterrence is central to the management of global security, in current international law deterrence considerations are perceived with suspicion and mistrust. It is perceived as an unlawful punitive measure. The lack of consensus on lawful deterrence, however, might create a vacuum that invites aggressors and transgressors. This chapter offers normative suggestions for introducing defensive deterrence and overcoming the practical problem of putting it into practice within the current contours of the law, by using the military professionalism criterion.

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