2021/05/18 by Kristina Murphy, Ben Bradford, Elise Sargeant +1 · 41 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Criminology #Economic Justice #Identification (biology) #Identity (music) #Immigration #Law #Policing Practices and Perceptions #Political science #Politics #Procedural justice #Psychology #Social exclusion #Social group #Social identity theory #Social psychology #Sociology #Solidarity #Vietnamese
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/bjc/azab052
published in The British Journal of Criminology 62(2), 299-319 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2021/05/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract Some immigrants can be reluctant to cooperate with the police due to experiences of social exclusion and discrimination. Procedural justice scholars argue that people cooperate with police when they feel the police are just and fair because such treatment motivates identification with social categories that police represent. In this paper, we consider whether immigrants in Australia respond favourably to procedurally just treatment from police because it enhances their identification with both Australia and the police. Using survey data from 903 Vietnamese, Middle Eastern and British immigrants, we demonstrate an association between police procedural justice and both modes of identification. We also find that both identities mediate the relationship between procedural justice and cooperation. The implications of these findings are discussed.