Tom Tyler

Yale University - Law School

Sr Research Scientist Law School, Professor of Law and Psychology

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

United States

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Scholarly Papers (44)

1.

Why Do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions

British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1051-1071, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology, University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, King’s College London - Institute for Criminal Policy Research, College of Policing, National Policing Improvement Agency and Yale University - Law School
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Public confidence, trust, legitimacy, compliance

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Future Challenges in the Study of Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 264
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Tom Tyler and Jonathan Jackson
Yale University - Law School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology
Downloads 1,366 (31,336)
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Public confidence, trust, police legitimacy, cooperation, contact with the police

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Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Men’s Legal Socialization

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 302, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 476, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-380
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 07 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2014
Tom Tyler, Jeffrey Fagan and Amanda Geller
Yale University - Law School, Columbia Law School and University of California Irvine
Downloads 715 (77,413)
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stop and frisk, policing, legitimacy, compliance, criminal behavior

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Lawful or Fair? How Cops and Laypeople View Good Policing

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 255
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2014
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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police misconduct, public perceptions of criminal justice, legitimacy, procedural justice, racial profiling, criminal procedure

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Popular Legitimacy and the Exercise of Legal Authority: Motivating Compliance, Cooperation and Engagement

Forthcoming in Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 306, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 477
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 12 May 2014
Tom Tyler and Jonathan Jackson
Yale University - Law School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology
Downloads 594 (98,065)
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legitimacy, compliance, cooperation, community engagement

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Thinking about Judges and Judicial Performance: Perspective of the Public and Court Users

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Dec 2014
David Rottman and Tom Tyler
National Center for State Courts and Yale University - Law School
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Judicial Performance Evaluation, judges, measurement, procedural fairness, Evaluación del rendimiento judicial, jueces, medición, legitimidad procesal

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Psychology of Procedural Justice and Cooperation

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, edited by G. Bruinsma and D. Weisburd, Springer-Verlag, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2013
Yale University - Law School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology and University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
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cooperation, procedural justice, trust in the police, police legitimacy, normative commitment, social capital

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Methodology in Legal Research

Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 130-141, 2017
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Tom Tyler
Yale University - Law School
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empirical research, deterrence, social control, consent, legitimacy, procedural justice

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Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes toward the Acceptability of Violence

Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 10 May 2013
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology, University of Chicago - Law School, University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 457 (135,462)
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Attitudes towards violence, public trust, procedural justice, institutional legitimacy

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American Policing at a Crossroads

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Forthcoming, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-55, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 337
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2011
New York University School of Law, Yale University - Law School and University of Chicago - Law School
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On the Justification and Recognition of Police Power: Broadening the Concept of Police Legitimacy

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 251, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 32/2012
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2012
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology, University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, King’s College London - Institute for Criminal Policy Research, College of Policing, National Policing Improvement Agency and Yale University - Law School
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public confidence, trust, legitimacy, cooperation, contact with the police

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Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counter-Terrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans

Law and Society Review, Forthcoming , U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 296, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-15
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Mar 2010
Yale University - Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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The Paradox of Law Enforcement in Immigrant Communities: Does Tough Immigration Enforcement Undermine Public Safety?

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 11-281
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Oct 2011
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Criminology, Sociology, Columbia Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 421 (149,179)
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Police Contact and Mental Health

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-571
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2018
Amanda Geller, Jeffrey Fagan and Tom Tyler
University of California Irvine, Columbia Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 420 (149,602)

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police, mental health, policing, legal socialization, police contact, New York City

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Bounded Authority: Expanding ‘Appropriate’ Police Behavior Beyond Procedural Justice

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
Arizona State University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology and Yale University - Law School
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Procedural justice, Legal socialization, Legitimacy, Public contact with the police, Trust, Compliance, Policing by consent

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Why Does the Public Cooperate with Law Enforcement? The Influence of the Purposes and Targets of Policing

Psychology, Public Policy & Law, Forthcoming , University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 339, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-11
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Feb 2011
University of Chicago - Law School, Yale University - Law School and New York University School of Law
Downloads 381 (166,919)
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procedural justice, legitimacy, policing, terrorism

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White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2017, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 2017-39, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-18
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2017
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Willamette University College of Law, Wayne State University Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet), Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Stirling, Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Harvard Law School, Notre Dame Law School, Northwestern University - School of Law, University at Buffalo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Brooklyn Law School, Yale University - Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Michigan Law School
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, Policing, Prosecutors, Criminal Justice Reform, Democracy, Democratic Criminal Justice

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Using Empirical Research to Design Government Citizen Participation Processes: A Case Study of Citizens' Roles in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2008, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 270, 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 07-014
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Tom Tyler and David L. Markell
Yale University - Law School and Florida State University - College of Law
Downloads 355 (180,550)
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environmental enforcement, procedural preferences, procedural justice

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Reconstituting Constitutional Orders

2017 Volume of Yale's Global Constitutionalism Seminar, a Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 628
Number of pages: 437 Posted: 16 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2018
Yale Law School, Constitutional Court of Colombia, Yale Law School, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Supreme Court of Canada, European University Institute, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Yale University - Law School, Constitutional Court of Italy, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, University of San Andres (UMSA), Yale University - Law School and University of Alabama School of Law
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Legal Socialization of Children and Adolescents

Social Justice Research, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2005, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 05-94
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Jeffrey Fagan and Tom Tyler
Columbia Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 326 (197,994)
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Compliance and Legal Authority

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition (2014 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 06 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2014
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology, Yale University - Law School, King’s College London - Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science and University of HaifaUniversity of Haifa, School of Criminology
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procedural justice, crime, compliance, legal authority, legitimacy, cooperation, deterrence

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Street Stops and Police Legitimacy in New York

Jeffrey Fagan, Tom R. Tyler, and Tracey L. Meares, Street Stops and Police Legitimacy in New York, in Jacqueline E. Ross and Thierry Delpeuch (eds.), Comparing the Democratic Governance of Police Intelligence: New Models of Participation and Expertise in the United States and Europe 203 (2016)., Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-514, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 547
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2016
Columbia Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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police, crime, new policing, street stops, SQF

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Mechanisms for Eliciting Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism Policing: Evidence from the United Kingdom

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 340, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-12
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2011
University of Chicago - Law School, Yale University - Law School and New York University School of Law
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The Public Regulation of Land Use Decisions: Criteria for Evaluating Alternative Procedures

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 7, p. 538, 2010, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 390, FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. 09-24
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Tom Tyler and David L. Markell
Yale University - Law School and Florida State University - College of Law
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How Do the Courts Create Popular Legitimacy?: The Role of Establishing the Truth, Punishing Justly, and/or Acting through Just Procedures

Tom Tyler & Justin Sevier, How Do the Courts Create Popular Legitimacy?: The Role of Establishing the Truth, Punishing Justly, and/or Acting Through Just Procedures, 77 ALB. L. REV __ (2014).
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2014
Tom Tyler and Justin Sevier
Yale University - Law School and Florida State University - College of Law
Downloads 258 (252,908)
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Aggressive Policing and the Mental Health of Young Urban Men

American Journal of Public Health. Posted online ahead of print, October 16, 2014., Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-382
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
University of California Irvine, Columbia Law School, Yale University - Law School and Columbia University - Department of Epidemiology
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Aggressive Policing and the Mental Health of Young Urban Men

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-382
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2014
University of California Irvine, Columbia Law School, Yale University - Law School and Columbia University - Department of Epidemiology
Downloads 71 (710,556)
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mental health, policing

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Principles of Procedurally Just Policing

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 09 Jul 2020
Yale Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 246 (265,277)
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police, procedural justice

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Enacting Justice: The Interplay of Individual and Institutional Perspectives

THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Michael Hogg, Joel Cooper, eds., pp. 458-476, Sage, 2003
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Aug 2008
Princeton University, Yale University - Law School and University of Illinois College of Law
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Do the ends justify the means? Policing and Rights Tradeoffs in New York City

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-581
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2018
Amanda Geller, Jeffrey Fagan and Tom Tyler
University of California Irvine, Columbia Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 210 (309,073)

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Police, Civil Liberties, Legitimacy, Survey Research

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What has Love Got to Do with It?: Sentimental Attachments and Legal Decision-Making

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 2, 2012, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper, No. 534
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School and Georgia State University
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The Consequences of Being an Object of Suspicion: Potential Pitfalls of Proactive Police Contact

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jun 2015
Yale University - Law School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology and University of HaifaUniversity of Haifa, School of Criminology
Downloads 170 (374,691)

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legitimacy, procedural justice, policing, trust

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Mandated Justice: The Potential Promise and Possible Pitfalls of Mandating Procedural Justice in the Workplace

Regulation and Governance, 2011, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 May 2008 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
Yuval Feldman and Tom Tyler
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 156 (403,466)
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procedural justice, social norms, goverment intervention, compliance, workplace justice

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Measuring Self-Control

NBER Working Paper No. w10514
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022
The Vanguard Group, Inc., New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Yale University - Law School
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My Life for a Voice: The Influence of Voice on Health-Care Decisions

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 May 2014
University of HaifaUniversity of Haifa, School of Criminology, New York University (NYU) - Department of Psychology and Yale University - Law School
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Procedural Justice; Voice; Tradeoffs; Healthcare

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Polarization and Voluntary Compliance The Impact of Ideological Extremity on The Effectiveness of Self-Regulation

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 4822965
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 May 2024
Libby Maman, Yuval Feldman and Tom Tyler
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals - IBEI, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Yale University - Law School
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Regulation, Compliance, Polarization, Cooperation, Self-Regulation

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The Salience of Social Contextual Factors in Appraisals of Police Interactions with Citizens: A Randomized Factorial Experiment

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-381, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 471, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Mar 2014
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Department of Sociology, Yale University - Law School, Columbia Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 120 (497,915)
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police legitimacy, procedural justice, priming, randomized factorial experiment

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In the Eyes of the Law: Perception Versus Reality in Appraisals of Video Evidence

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2018, Vol. 24, No. 1, 93–104, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Nov 2023
New York University (NYU), Quinnipiac University - School of Law, New York University (NYU) and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 114 (517,516)
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law, visual perception, attention, judgment and decision-making

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The Consequence of Being a Target of Suspicion: Potential Pitfalls of Proactive Policing

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Jul 2014
Yale University - Law School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology and University of HaifaUniversity of Haifa, School of Criminology
Downloads 112 (524,533)
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policing; trust; broken windows; zero tolerance; stop; question and frisk

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Beyond the Law: An Agenda for Policing Reform

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 100, 2020
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2020
Megan Quattlebaum and Tom Tyler
Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
Downloads 98 (577,592)
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police, police reform

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Going Outside the Law: The Role of the State in Forming Attitudes to Extralegal Violence

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Jul 2011
University of Chicago - Law School, Yale University - Law School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology and University College London - Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
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Violence, policing, procedural justice, terrorism

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Punishing Collective Entities

Journal of Law and Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 May 2014 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2015
Yale University - Law School and University of HaifaUniversity of Haifa, School of Criminology
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Punishment, Collevtive Entities, Procedural Justice

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Whither Legitimacy? Legal Authority in the Twenty-First Century

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 19, pp. 1-17, 2023
Posted: 20 Oct 2023
Tom Tyler
Yale University - Law School

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Procedural Justice and Policing: A Rush to Judgment?

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 13, pp. 29-53, 2017
Posted: 26 Oct 2017
Tom Tyler
Yale University - Law School

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Legal Socialization: Coercion Versus Consent in an Era of Mistrust

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 12, pp. 417-439, 2016
Posted: 18 Nov 2016
Rick Trinkner and Tom Tyler
Arizona State University and Yale University - Law School

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