Police-Citizen Relations Across the World: Comparing sources and contexts of trust and legitimacy - Paperback

by Dietrich Oberwittler (Editor), Sebastian Roché (Editor)

This book considers questions of police legitimacy in different regions of the world, explores the perception of legitimacy and examines how procedural justice is important for building legitimacy.

Author Biography

Dietrich Oberwittler is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Criminal Law (Department of Criminology) in Freiburg, Germany, and extracurricular professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg.

Sebastian Roché is a Research Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Sciences-Po, University of Grenoble-Alpes, France. First secretary general of the European Society of Criminology after its foundation, he is today the regional editor (Europe) of Policing and Society.