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Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Seminar from 9.30-10.30am on Friday 27 March 2020
Oluwagbenga Michael Akinlabi presents
© The Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School
Are we really minding the gap? Assessing the transcultural applicability of procedural justice theory in the periphery
In recent years, studies about the legitimacy of legal authorities – especially that of the police – have grown exponentially in criminological and socio-legal literature. Many of these studies focused on assessing the antecedent and consequent factors of the perceived legitimacy of legal authorities. A dominant antecedent factor in the literature today is Tyler’s procedural justice model. Although an extensive amount of research since the 1970s has been conducted on procedural justice, it was Tom Tyler’s pathbreaking analysis in 1990 that presented what might be called a procedural justice resurgence in police research. Studies mostly conducted in relatively stable and wealthier societies where the police are a well-established part of the democratic governance (e.g. US, UK, and Australia), regularly find procedural justice as the most important antecedent of police legitimacy, with judgement about other aspects of police behaviour less important.
However, this idea has received only sporadic testing in the global periphery (where social order is more tenuous and the position of the police less secure) and those that do exist report inconsistent results. Importantly, even studies that examine minority immigrants’ views of police within Western countries suggest procedural justice does not always dominate citizens’ judgments of police legitimacy. Such findings suggest that the transcultural applicability of the procedural justice theory on legitimacy is not limitless or is, at least, questionable.
Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi is a comparative and interdisciplinary researcher who is interested in exploring how social norms, perceptions of justice and fairness, corruption, emotions and motivations, feelings of trust, and predatory policing can go a long way to influence cynicism towards the law as well as the levels of resistance and defiance among individuals or groups in the community.
Enquiries to: Karin von Strokirch – kvonstro@une.edu.au