Police Legitimacy or Dull Compulsion?: Assessing Why People Comply with Laws in Nigeria

Michael Olu Akinlabi; Kristina Murphy; Philip Stenning

Abstract

<p>Do people living in societies rife with police corruption comply with the law because they perceive police as legitimate or because of their feelings of endemic powerlessness (i.e., what Carrabine (2005) and Tankebe (2009) refers to as dull compulsion)? Legitimacy is commonly defined in literature as the belief that a state, leader, or institution has the right to rule or govern. It is a judgement by an individual or public about the rightfulness of authority and about the power-subject's perceived obligation to obey such authority (Tyler, 1990; Murphy et al., 2009; Reisig, Tankebe, & Mesko, 2012; Weber, 1958).</p>

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	ASC 2016 Annual Meeting: American Society of Criminology 72nd Annual Meeting - New Orleans Hilton, New Orleans, United States of America Duration: 16 Nov 2016 → 19 Nov 2016

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Conference	ASC 2016 Annual Meeting: American Society of Criminology 72nd Annual Meeting
City	New Orleans, United States of America
Period	16/11/16 → 19/11/16

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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