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Procedural Justice - Subject Follow-up

This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow06, Follow12, Follow18, Follow24, Follow30, Follow36, Follow48, Follow60, Follow72, Follow84.

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Description of Measure

The Procedural Justice inventory was adapted for this study to measure the adolescent's perception of fairness and equity connected with arrest and court processing. The approach taken here was an adaptation of those taken by Tyler (1997). Conceptually, the idea is that there is an experiential basis for translating interactions with legal processes into perceptions and evaluations of the law and the legal actors that enforce it. This measure is designed to tap several dimensions of fair treatment: correctability, ethicality, representativeness and consistency (see Tyler and Huo, 2002). The outcomes of this process include evaluations of law and its underlying norms: legitimacy and legal cynicism.

The 55 items in this measure are divided into four sections: Police {Direct Experience & Others' Experience (e.g., "The police treat me the same way they treat most people my age.")}, Judge {Direct Experience & Others' Experience (e.g., "The court considered the evidence/viewpoints in this incident fairly.")}, Legitimacy (e.g., "I feel people should support the police."), and Legal Cynicism (e.g., "Laws are meant to be broken.").

A one-factor CFA was conducted for each of the scores generated below at the baseline time point. The values produced from this analysis are as follows:

There was also found to be adequate internal consistency at the follow-up time points. The alphas for these scales for 6 through 84 months are as follows:

Summary procedural justice indices for police [S#PJCOP] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .77, 12- months: .77, 18-months: .78, 24 –months: .76, 30-months: .75, 36-months: .74, 48-months: .74, 60-months: .81, 72-months: .81, 84-months: .81

Procedural justice scales for police - direct experience [S#PJCOPU] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .73, 12- months: .74, 18-months: .74, 24 –months: .74, 30-months: .75, 36-months: .74, 48-months: .72, 60-months: .78, 72-months: .79, 84-months: .80

Procedural justice scales for police - others experience [S#PJCOPO] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .58, 12- months: .64, 18-months: .68, 24 –months: .67, 30-months: .71, 36-months: .71, 48-months: .68, 60-months: .71, 72-months: .71, 84-months: .71

Summary procedural justice indices for judges [S#PJJUDG] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .78, 12- months: .78, 18-months: .79, 24 –months: .77, 30-months: .80, 36-months: .80, 48-months: .78, 60-months: .81, 72-months: .78, 84-months: .80

Procedural justice scales for court - direct experience [S#PJJUDU] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .76, 12- months: .77, 18-months: .77, 24 –months: .74, 30-months: .77, 36-months: .76, 48-months: .73, 60-months: .79, 72-months: .77, 84-months: .76

Procedural justice scales for court - others experience [S#PJJUDO] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .64, 12- months: .70, 18-months: .67, 24 –months: .69, 30-months: .72, 36-months: .73, 48-months: .70, 60-months: .71, 72-months: .72, 84-months: .71

Legitimacy index [S#LEGIT] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .83, 12- months: .82, 18-months: .84, 24 –months: .85, 30-months: .84, 36-months: .86, 48-months: .86, 60-months: .86, 72-months: .88, 84-months: .87

Legal cynicism index [S#CYNIC] Cronbach's alpha follow-up: 6-months: .66, 12- months: .64, 18-months: .69, 24 –months: .70, 30-months: .71, 36-months: .72, 48-months: .72, 60-months: .70, 72-months: .72, 84-months: .73

Eight scores are computed:

The following individual items are also available:

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