Understanding Legitimacy in Criminal Justice

This book updates the recent quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical literature on legitimacy, focusing on how it can be measured in diversified research environments. Highlighting the different measurements and the critique surrounding them, this volume is a coherent and systematic guide to theory on legitimacy. This book is divided into three sections:

• Theoretical framework
• Legitimacy and its measures

• Legitimacy International
  Within these three parts, individual chapters are expected to provide in-depth analysis of core topics, including development, measurement, and cultural disparities, and collectively represent a comprehensive review of legitimacy in theory and in methodology in the global context.

  The book is ideal for researchers and graduate criminology and criminal justice students.

  Updates literature on legitimacy, a rapidly growing topic Addresses how to empirically measure legitimacy in different research environments Legitimacy studies has a newly found international appeal, which is represented by the eclectic group of contributors

  Autorentext

  Liqun Cao, Ph.D., is Professor of sociology and criminology at Ontario Tech University, Canada. His research interests include criminological theory, gun ownership, police legitimacy, policy on ascetic deviance, and race and ethnicity in criminal justice. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004) and co-authors of Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (2014) with LanYing Huang and Ivan Y. Sun. In addition, he co-edited book Lessons of International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice with John Winterdyk (2004), and Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014) with Ivan Y. Sun and Bill Hebenton.

  Inhalt

Section I Theoretical Frame of Legitimacy.- Chapter 1 Historical Themes of Legitimacy.- Chapter 2 Legitimacy and its critiques: A cautionary note.- Section II Legitimacy and its Measures.- Chapter 3 The Meaning and Measurement of Perceived Legitimacy.- Chapter 4 Legitimacy and its Consequences with a special gaze at race/ethnicity.- Chapter 5 Protest movement and legitimacy in democracy.- Chapter 6 Future Research on Legitimacy and its Measures.- Section III The Empirical Study of Legitimacy in International Context.- Chapter 7 The Empirical Studies of Legitimacy in the West.- Chapter 8 Exploration of Legitimacy in East Asia.- Chapter 9 Application of Legitimacy in Africa and Latin America.