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20 Police Q. 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/policqurt20 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Police Quarterly 2017, Vol. 20(l) 3-23 A chieving Fairness @ The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: in Policing: The Link Between Internal ournals.sagepub.com/hore/pqx and External OSAGE Procedural justice Maarten Van Craen and Wesley G. Skogan 2 Abstract Decades of research on public support for the police has documented the prominent role of procedural justice in shaping popular views of police legitimacy and the pre- disposition of citizens to comply and cooperate with them. However, much less attention has been given to the issue of how to get police officers to actually act in accord with its principles when they interact with the public. Reminders of the importance and the difficulty of fostering police legitimacy are not hard to come by, as witnessed in events in the United States during 2014 to 2015. This article addresses the hard, multifaceted issue of fostering procedural justice in the ranks. It theorizes and assesses the relationship between fair supervision and fair policing. The results of our study indicate that perceived internal procedural justice is directly related to support for external procedural justice (modeling thesis), and also indir- ectly, via trust in citizens. Keywords procedural justice, fairness, modeling, trust, supervision 'Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), University of Leuven, Hooverplein, Leuven, Belgium 2nstitute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Corresponding Author: Maarten Van Craen, Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), University of Leuven, Hooverplein 10, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Email: maarten.vancraen@law.kuleuven.be