Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood
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DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12230
Abstract: In different theoretical traditions, negative social conditions, attachments, and interactions shape the way individuals view the law and its agents. Although most researchers acknowledge the conceptual distinction between different legal attitudes such as legal cynicism… read more here.
Keywords: cynicism; legal cynicism; cynicism police; police legitimacy ... See more keywords
Violent Peers and Street Efficacy in Legally Cynical Neighborhoods
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DOI: 10.1177/2329496516651640
Abstract: Neighborhood scholars increasingly focus on legal cynicism—a frame through which the law and its enforcement agents are viewed as illegitimate and ineffective. We investigate how legal cynicism within the residential neighborhood and violent peers jointly… read more here.
Keywords: street efficacy; legal cynicism; legally cynical; violent peers ... See more keywords