Procedural Justice - Collateral Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat_baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The Procedural Justice items included in the collateral interview are those which evaluate the law and it's underlying norms. Specifically these 16 items tap Legitimacy (e.g., "I feel people should support the police.") and Legal Cynicism (e.g., "Laws are meant to be broken.") (Tyler, 1997). Higher scores on the legitimacy scale indicate a greater respect for police; while lower scores on the legal cynicism indicate a less cynical view of the law.
Two scores are computed from this scale:
- Legitimacy index [c0legit]; mean of 11 items
- Legal cynicism index [c0cynic]; mean of 5 items
Data Issues
- Only a subset of the questions asked at subject baseline interview are asked at the collateral baseline interview; therefore, only two scores are computed for the collateral.
- Note that the focus of this measure is on the collateral's own experiences with the police/courts.
References
- Casper, J., Tyler, T., and Fisher, B. (1988). Procedural justice in felony cases. Law and Society Review, 22(3) 483-507.
- Tyler, T.R. (1990). Why People Obey the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Tyler, T. (1997). Procedural fairness and compliance with the law. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 133 (2/2), 219-240.
- Paternoster, R., Brame, R., Bachman, R., and Sherman, L.W. (1997). Do fair procedures matter? The effect of procedural justice on spouse assault. Law and Society Review, 31, 163-204.
- Srole, L. (1956). Social integration and certain corollaries: An exploratory study. American Sociological Review, 21, 709-716.
- Sampson, R.J. and Bartusch, D.J. (1999). Legal cynicism and tolerance of deviance: the neighborhood context of racial differences. Law and Society Review, 32(4), 777-804.