Li Jessica C M, Zhang Serena Y, Sun Ivan Y, Ho Albert S K
Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Front Sociol. 2024 Sep 25;9:1409080. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1409080. eCollection 2024.
Understanding police legitimacy among children and youth is important for building a just and democratic society. Although the volume of studies on police legitimacy among underaged persons has grown in recent decades, the findings on the relationships between police legitimacy and procedural justice and their definitions, associated determinants, and consequences remain heterogeneous across studies and across political and legal contexts. Given these heterogeneities, the conclusions and implications generated by this research are far from comprehensive.
This scoping review offers readers a comprehensive and comparative understanding of this topic by answering the following questions. (1) How can we police legitimacy and procedural justice for children and youth? (2) What are the of police procedural justice and legitimacy for children and youth? (3) What are the of police procedural (in)justice and (il)legitimacy for children and youth? (4) Among children and youth, who are the receiving less legitimate and unjust treatment from the police? A scoping review of the literature published between January 1, 1990 and May 31, 2022 was conducted based on four databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest. Guided by the scoping review screening framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley, that is, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines, and the checklist provided by the Joanna Briggs Institute for quality assessment, 47 publications, consisting of 38 quantitative studies and 9 qualitative studies, were retained in the final sample.
The results synthesize the operational and subjective interpretations of police legitimacy offered by the respondents in the studies reviewed which is followed by the discussion of conceptual and measurement issues. The key correlates of police legitimacy identified in these studies were police procedural justice and behavior, followed by experience and contact with the police, relationships with other authority figures, and personal competence in moral reasoning and self-control. In addition to compliance and cooperation, cynicism, trust, and health were related to police (il)legitimacy.
We argue that in addition to building and maintaining police legitimacy, it is vital to remedy the negative consequences of injustice in police-youth encounters.
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理解儿童和青少年对警察合法性的认知对于建设一个公正和民主的社会至关重要。尽管近几十年来关于未成年人对警察合法性的研究数量有所增加，但关于警察合法性与程序正义之间的关系及其定义、相关决定因素和后果的研究结果在不同研究以及不同政治和法律背景下仍存在差异。鉴于这些差异，该研究得出的结论和启示远非全面。
本范围综述通过回答以下问题，为读者提供对该主题的全面和比较性理解。（1）我们如何界定儿童和青少年的警察合法性与程序正义？（2）警察程序正义和合法性对儿童和青少年有哪些影响？（3）警察程序（非）正义和（非）合法性对儿童和青少年有哪些后果？（4）在儿童和青少年中，哪些人受到警察较少的合法和公正对待？基于四个数据库：PubMed、科学网、Scopus和ProQuest，对1990年1月1日至2022年5月31日期间发表的文献进行了范围综述。以Arksey和O'Malley提出的范围综述筛选框架，即系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目指南，以及乔安娜·布里格斯研究所提供的质量评估清单为指导，最终样本保留了47篇出版物，包括38项定量研究和9项定性研究。
结果综合了所审查研究中受访者对警察合法性的操作性和主观性解释，随后讨论了概念和测量问题。这些研究中确定警察合法性的关键相关因素是警察程序正义和行为，其次是与警察的经历和接触、与其他权威人物的关系以及道德推理和自我控制方面的个人能力。除了顺从与合作外，犬儒主义、信任和健康与警察（非）合法性有关。
我们认为，除了建立和维护警察合法性之外，纠正警察与青少年接触中不公正的负面后果也至关重要。
