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Journal: Moral solidarity, identification with the community, and the importance of procedural justice: The police as prototypical representatives of a group’s moral values.
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This paper demonstrates that people’s cooperation with the police is motivated in part by their judgment that the police are prototypical representatives of the group’s moral values, as is predicted by the social identity approach. They further show that people evaluate the degree to which the police reflect the group’s moral values by assessing the fairness of the procedures they use to exercise their authority, as is argued by the relational model of authority. They finally show that the social identity approach and the relational model of authority interact: people who are uncertain about their status in the group are shown to be concerned more strongly about procedural justice issues than about issues of distributive justice. The reason for this study was to attempt to clarify why people support and cooperate with the police. They were concerned about three types of support: compliance with the law, cooperation with the police, and willingness to empower the police with discretionary authority. Their interest was the motivations that shape these types of public support. They contrasted two motivations- instrumental and moral-and explore the importance of each. One model is based on the view of people’s connection to groups as instrumental. One instrumental model suggest that people support the police when they regard them as a credible agent of social control (the risk model); the other links support to a view of the police as effective in managing social disorder (the performance model). Risk- One function of legal authorities is to prevent crime by increasing the likelihood that rule breakers will be caught and punished.
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