Police Legitimacy Assignment Analysis

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Introduction
Police legitimacy can be described as the extent of the point of view of the public
towards the legitimacy of the police. The term police legitimacy is often used for measuring
the willingness of the public for being willing to be obeying and cooperating with the works
of the police. It can be seen as being linked to the degree of support and cooperation that the
public shows towards the efforts made by the police for fighting crime. The first chapter in
the research would be the introduction to the subject matter. The chapter will also provide
with the context to the study subject, the gaps that can be observed in the study and the
problem statement. The chapter will further provide the readers with the aims and objectives
of the study; and the questions upraised in perspective to the study. Chapter 2 would be the
literature review. The chapter will also provide with the gaps present in the literature existing
on the current study. Chapter 3 would be providing the readers with the methods through
which the data would be collected and analysed.
Problem statement
The subject matter of police legitimacy has been researched widely and has further
been the topic for many of the empirical studies conducted within the past few decades. The
main reason for the abundance of the study of police legitimacy is because the subject area
had been of a major concern for the policymakers since the modern police system had been
found. The concept of the legitimacy of the police can be observed as being a complicated
matter. There had been many differences in the opinions of the scholars towards the meaning
and concepts of the subject matter of the police legitimacy. There has been an agreement
between the scholars about the existence of the distinction between the empirical legitimacy
and the normative legitimacy. This paper aims to provide the readers with a detailed analysis
for the major areas of concern in the subject matter of police legitimacy. The concept of

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police legitimacy has been conceptualized and measured in multiple ways and the focus of
the study has been mostly focussed on a few of the nations. The main problem of the subject
matter of the research is that there is a lack of resources from different nations.
Research Question
The main focus in the study would be to answer these following questions: what is the
relation between police legitimacy and successful deterrence of crime? How does police
legitimacy impact procedural justice?
Research objective
The main objective of the research is to find out the relation existing between the
police legitimacy and successful deterrence of crime and to find the impact that police
legitimacy has on procedural justice.
Research Hypothesis
The hypothesis of this study can be observed as raising the question on the socio-legal
issues on the subject of Police legitimacy.
Literature Review
The author Wall (2019) in his book The Chief Constables of England and Wales can
be seen as analysis of the career of the Chief Constables who had been holding their office
between the years of 1835 and 1995. In the book the author can be seen as illustrating the
interaction between the police officers and politics in both the national and the local levels.
Banakar and Travers (2014) in their book can be observed as putting their focus on the
sociological theories and their critical approaches in the legal professions. The authors focus
the effects that various social theories have on different legal professions and the impact that
globalization have on such professions. In their book, the authors Quinney and Shelden