Bradford, Ben;
(2024)
What goes up must come down? 25 years of public trust in the police.
International Journal of Police Science and Management
, 26
(4)
pp. 470-477.
10.1177/146135572412988.
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Abstract
Public trust in the police is an almost ever-present feature of United Kingdom policy, political and indeed cultural debates, and this has been true right across the past quarter century. Concentrating on the population-level picture, and on England and Wales, in this article I outline what we know about changes in ‘trust and confidence’ over the past two decades or so, and make comparison with changes in other, closely associated, indicators. Why it might be that over this period trust in police first increased significantly, and then declined? Answers to this question implicate what might be termed the political economy of trust. Change in public trust may be due to a whole set of factors operating across multiple levels of policing and the society in which it takes place.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What goes up must come down? 25 years of public trust in the police |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/146135572412988 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/146135572412988 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Trust in police, public confidence, public opinion, survey data |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203174 |
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