Yesberg, Julia;
Hobson, Zöe;
Pósch, Krisztián;
Bradford, Benjamin;
Jackson, Jonathan;
Kyprianides, Arabella;
Solymosi, Reka;
... Glibert, Emily; + view all
(2023)
Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London.
Policing and Society
10.1080/10439463.2023.2279061.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10439463.2023.2279061 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2279061 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 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 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, police empowerment, procedural justice, legitimacy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180281 |
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