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                                                                      Police Quarterly
                                                                   2017, Vol. 20(l) 3-23
A   chieving         Fairness                                    @  The Author(s) 2016
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Procedural justice

Maarten Van Craen and
Wesley G. Skogan 2




Abstract
Decades  of research on public support for the police has documented the prominent
role of procedural justice in shaping popular views of police legitimacy and the pre-
disposition of citizens to comply and cooperate  with  them. However,  much   less
attention has been given to the issue of how  to get police officers to actually act
in accord with its principles when they interact with the public. Reminders of the
importance  and the difficulty of fostering police legitimacy are not hard to come by,
as witnessed  in events  in the United  States during 2014  to 2015.  This article
addresses the  hard, multifaceted issue of fostering procedural justice in the ranks.
It theorizes and assesses the relationship between fair supervision and fair policing.
The  results of our study indicate that perceived internal procedural justice is directly
related to support for external procedural justice (modeling thesis), and also indir-
ectly, via trust in citizens.

Keywords
procedural justice, fairness, modeling, trust, supervision







'Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), University of Leuven, Hooverplein, Leuven, Belgium
2nstitute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Corresponding Author:
Maarten Van Craen, Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), University of Leuven, Hooverplein 10,
3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Email: maarten.vancraen@law.kuleuven.be

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