Self-legitimacy, police culture and support for democratic policing in an English Constabulary

When do police officers feel confident in their own authority? What factors influence their sense of their own legitimacy? What is the effect of such ‘self-legitimacy’ on the way they think about policing? This paper addresses these questions using a survey of police officers working in an English c...

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Main Authors: Bradford, B, Quinton, P
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014