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The space between: Trustworthiness and trust in the police among three immigrant groups in Australia

Bradford, Benjamin; Jackson, Jonathan; Kristina, Murphy; Sargeant, Elise; (2023) The space between: Trustworthiness and trust in the police among three immigrant groups in Australia. Journal of Trust Research , 12 (2) 10.1080/21515581.2022.2155659. Green open access

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Abstract

Research regularly finds significant variation in the perceived trustworthiness of police across different social groups. For example, studies from a number of different countries have shown that people from particular ethnic and racial minority groups tend to have less positive evaluations and lower expectations of police effectiveness, benevolence and integrity, compared to their majority group counterparts. However, much less is known about how trust – as a willingness to be vulnerable under conditions of risk – varies across groups. Moreover, the criminological literature regularly conflates trustworthiness and trust, and/or assumes the former translates unproblematically into the latter. In this paper, we use data from a survey of three immigrant groups living in Sydney, Australia, to explore the relationship between trustworthiness and trust. We focus on how aspects of the ‘immigrant experience’ may affect the translation of trustworthiness into trust, and whether there are factors that predict trust independent of evaluations of the trust object. Our results show that social norms, which vary across immigrant groups, predict levels of trust independent of trustworthiness, as do other individual and group-level characteristics. This has important implications, both for the conceptualisation and empirical study of trust in the police, and for policy efforts that seek to enhance public trust in this important state institution.

Type: Article
Title: The space between: Trustworthiness and trust in the police among three immigrant groups in Australia
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/21515581.2022.2155659
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2022.2155659
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords: Trust in the police; trustworthiness; immigrants; ethnicity
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161718
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