TY - JOUR
T1 - Legal socialisation in Brazil
T2 - examining the generalisability of the procedural justice model
AU - Trinkner, Rick
AU - Rodrigues, Herbert
AU - Piccirillo, Debora
AU - Gifford, Faith E.
AU - Gomes, Aline Morais Mizutani
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), developed by the Center for the Study of Violence of the University of São Paulo (NEV-USP), for the 2013–2018 Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) Program “Building Democracy Daily: Human Rights, Violence and Institutional Trust” process number: [2013/07923-7].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - Research examining the legal socialisation process continues to be largely focused on US adolescents, calling into question the generalisability of this work. This study tests a popular model of legal socialisation–the procedural justice model–using a sample of youth in São Paulo, Brazil. Approximately, 750 12-year-olds completed a survey assessing their direct and vicarious contact with police, judgements of police procedural justice, crime perceptions, police legitimacy, legal cynicism, and criminal offending. Both direct and indirect experiences with the police were associated with lower procedural justice. Police legitimacy was associated with both procedural justice and crime perceptions; however, legal cynicism was only associated with perceptions of crime. Finally, higher perceptions of police legitimacy, but not legal cynicism, were associated with lower levels of self-reported offending. Overall, this study showed mixed support for the generalisability of the procedural justice model of legal socialisation.
AB - Research examining the legal socialisation process continues to be largely focused on US adolescents, calling into question the generalisability of this work. This study tests a popular model of legal socialisation–the procedural justice model–using a sample of youth in São Paulo, Brazil. Approximately, 750 12-year-olds completed a survey assessing their direct and vicarious contact with police, judgements of police procedural justice, crime perceptions, police legitimacy, legal cynicism, and criminal offending. Both direct and indirect experiences with the police were associated with lower procedural justice. Police legitimacy was associated with both procedural justice and crime perceptions; however, legal cynicism was only associated with perceptions of crime. Finally, higher perceptions of police legitimacy, but not legal cynicism, were associated with lower levels of self-reported offending. Overall, this study showed mixed support for the generalisability of the procedural justice model of legal socialisation.
KW - Legal socialisation
KW - delinquency
KW - legal cynicism
KW - police legitimacy
KW - procedural justice
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U2 - 10.1080/01924036.2019.1587710
DO - 10.1080/01924036.2019.1587710
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074500249
SN - 0192-4036
VL - 44
SP - 7
EP - 27
JO - International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
JF - International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
IS - 1-2
ER -