eprintid: 10193468
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2024-06-14 14:05:01
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type: article
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creators_name: Fine, Adam
creators_name: Rodrigues Oliveira, Thiago
creators_name: Jackson, Jonathan
creators_name: Bradford, Ben
creators_name: Posch, Krisztian
creators_name: Trinkner, Rick
title: Did the murder of George Floyd damage public perceptions of police and law in the United States?
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F52
keywords: procedural justice, police perceptions, police legitimacy,
police brutality
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Objectives: The police killing of George Floyd energized the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement across the United States in the summer of 2020. We test the impact on public perceptions of the fairness and legitimacy of the police and law. Methods: A four-state, three-wave, short-term longitudinal study (N = 1048; Arizona, Michigan, New York, and Texas) used a novel design focused on differences in change over time to test whether public perceptions changed after the killing of Floyd. Results: Fielding multiple outcome markers, as well as multiple pseudo-placebo comparison variables, we found that perceptions of police procedural justice, distributive justice, and bounded authority, as well as perceptions of the legitimacy of the police and law, declined following Floyd's murder. Levels of trust in science, identification with healthcare workers, and collective efficacy perceptions did not change. As discussed in the paper, the effects varied by participants’ political views. Conclusions: The police killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests seemed to have damaged attitudes towards police and the law.
date: 2024-08-08
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/002242782412635
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2285067
doi: 10.1177/002242782412635
lyricists_name: Bradford, Benjamin
lyricists_id: BBRAD76
actors_name: Bradford, Benjamin
actors_id: BBRAD76
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
citation:        Fine, Adam;    Rodrigues Oliveira, Thiago;    Jackson, Jonathan;    Bradford, Ben;    Posch, Krisztian;    Trinkner, Rick;      (2024)    Did the murder of George Floyd damage public perceptions of police and law in the United States?                   Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency        10.1177/002242782412635 <https://doi.org/10.1177/002242782412635>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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