PROFILING AND POLICE LEGITIMACY: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE, ATTRIBUTIONS OF MOTIVE, AND ACCEPTANCE OF POLICE AUTHORITY*
2004/05/01 by TOM R. TYLER, Tom R. Tyler, CHERYL J. WAKSLAK +1 · 662 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attribution #Computer science #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Criminal justice #Criminology #Law #Legitimacy #Perception #Policing Practices and Perceptions #Political science #Politics #Procedural justice #Profiling (computer programming) #Psychology #Race (biology) #Racial profiling #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #Social psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00520.x
published in Criminology 42(2), 253-282 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2004/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper reports the results of four studies that investigate racial profiling as an attribution about police motives. Each study explores, first, the types of police behavior that heighten or lessen the occurrence of profiling attributions and, second, the consequences of such attributions. Results support prior studies in finding that judgments about whether the police are profiling are associated with the level of public support for the police. The studies then extend the analysis of subjective profiling judgments by examining their antecedents. The findings support the procedural justice hypothesis that the fairness with which the police exercise their authority influences whether members of the public view the police as profiling.
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