Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Policing & Society Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1080/10439463.2023.2279061

Julia A. Yesberg, Zöe Hobson, Krisztián Pósch, Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, Arabella Kyprianides, Reka Solymosi, Paul Dawson, Nicole Ramshaw, Emily Gilbert

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Abstract

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, police services around the world were granted unprecedented new powers to enforce social distancing restrictions. In this paper, we present data from a rolling representative sample survey of Londoners (n = 3,201) fielded during the height of the first wave of the pandemic (April to June 2020). We examine the scale of public support for giving police additional powers to enforce the regulations, whether support for different powers ebbed and flowed over time, and which factors predicted support for police powers. First, we use interrupted time-series analysis to model change over time. Second, we pool the data to test the predictors of support for police powers. Aside from one lockdown-specific temporal factor (the easing of restrictions), we find that even in the midst of a pandemic, legitimacy, procedural justice and affective evaluations of pandemic powers are the most important factors explaining variation in public support for police empowerment.

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2019冠状病毒病危机期间公众支持赋权警察:来自伦敦的证据

面对COVID-19大流行，世界各地的警察部门被授予前所未有的新权力，以执行社交距离限制。在本文中，我们介绍了在第一波大流行高峰期(2020年4月至6月)对伦敦人(n = 3201)进行的滚动代表性样本调查的数据。我们研究了公众对赋予警察额外权力以执行法规的支持程度，对不同权力的支持是否随着时间的推移而起伏，以及哪些因素预测了对警察权力的支持。首先，我们使用中断时间序列分析来模拟随时间的变化。其次，我们汇集数据来测试支持警察权力的预测因素。除了一个特定于封锁的时间因素(限制的放松)外，我们发现，即使在大流行期间，合法性、程序正义和对大流行权力的情感评估是解释公众对警察赋权的支持变化的最重要因素。

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Policing & Society CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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5.40

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7.40%

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期刊介绍： Policing & Society is widely acknowledged as the leading international academic journal specialising in the study of policing institutions and their practices. It is concerned with all aspects of how policing articulates and animates the social contexts in which it is located. This includes: • Social scientific investigations of police policy and activity • Legal and political analyses of police powers and governance • Management oriented research on aspects of police organisation Space is also devoted to the relationship between what the police do and the policing decisions and functions of communities, private sector organisations and other state agencies.