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Testing A Social Schematic Model Of Police Procedural Justice, Justin T. Pickett, Justin Nix
Testing A Social Schematic Model Of Police Procedural Justice, Justin T. Pickett, Justin Nix
Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Procedural justice theory increasingly guides policing reforms in the United States and abroad. Yet the primary sources of perceived police procedural justice are still unclear. Building on social schema research, we posit civilians’ perceptions of police procedural justice only partly reflect their personal and vicarious experiences with officers. We theorize perceptions of the police are anchored in a broader “relational justice schema,” composed of views about how respectful, fair, and unbiased most people are in their dealings with others. Individuals’ experiences with certain nonlegal actors and neighborhood environments should directly affect their relational justice schema and indirectly affect their evaluation …