Using a brief contact to improve trust in the police by the youth

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2025.102376

Gwen-Jirō Clochard

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Abstract

Trust in the police has many positive effects, so it is important to explore solutions to improve police-community relations, especially in areas where such relations are deteriorated. In this paper, I use a lab-in-the-field experiment in two high schools in France to investigate the effect of a brief and controlled discussion - contact - between police officers and students on trust. The results indicate a positive effect of contact on trust at the individual level, i.e. toward the specific police officer met. However, the effect does not translate into an increase in trust in the police in general. A Bayesian model of belief formation can shed light on why a single contact may not be sufficient in the case of prior — negative — interactions. This paper can have implications for the most widely used policy to improve perceptions of the police, namely community policing.

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通过短暂的接触来提高年轻人对警察的信任

对警察的信任具有许多积极作用，因此，探索改善警察与社区关系的解决方案非常重要，特别是在这种关系恶化的地区。在本文中，我在法国的两所高中进行了实地实验室实验，以调查警察与学生之间短暂而受控的讨论-接触-对信任的影响。结果表明，接触对个体层面的信任有正向影响，即对特定警官的信任。然而，这种效果并没有转化为对警察总体信任的增加。信念形成的贝叶斯模型可以解释为什么在先前的负面互动中，一次接触可能是不够的。本文可以对最广泛使用的政策产生影响，以改善对警察的看法，即社区警务。

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来源期刊

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

113

审稿时长

83 days

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