eprintid: 10193468 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/34/68 datestamp: 2024-06-14 14:05:01 lastmod: 2024-11-18 15:10:35 status_changed: 2024-06-14 14:05:01 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193468/1/Did_the_murder_of_George_Floyd_-_pre-pub_version.pdf