Police effectiveness and police trustworthiness in Ghana: An empirical appraisal

摘要: Although police researchers have often assumed that perceptions of effectiveness enhance legitimacy, there has been very little empirical support for this assumption. Employing the legitimacy scale developed by Sunshine and Tyler, study sought to fill gap in our criminological knowledge using data from a representative public survey Accra, Ghana (N= 374). The article reports lack reliability, Ghanaian context, overall Sunshine—Tyler scale, therefore focuses attention on sub-scale labelled `perceptions trustworthiness'. findings show though exercise direct impact perceived trustworthiness, relationship is stronger if are also be procedurally fair. significant as they building trust requires democratic reforms simultaneously improve capacity achieve both substantive proce...