Overview
- Updates literature on legitimacy, a rapidly growing topic
- Addresses how to empirically measure legitimacy in different research environments
- Legitimacy studies has a newly found international appeal, which is represented by the eclectic group of contributors
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About this book
This book updates the recent quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical literature on legitimacy, focusing on how it can be measured in diversified research environments. Highlighting the different measurements and the critique surrounding them, this volume is a coherent and systematic guide to theory on legitimacy. This book is divided into three sections:
- Theoretical framework
- Legitimacy and its measures
- Legitimacy International
Within these three parts, individual chapters are expected to provide in-depth analysis of core topics, including development, measurement, and cultural disparities, and collectively represent a comprehensive review of legitimacy in theory and in methodology in the global context.
The book is ideal for researchers and graduate criminology and criminal justice students.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Frame of Legitimacy
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Front Matter
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Legitimacy and Its Measures
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Liqun Cao, Ph.D., is Professor of sociology and criminology at Ontario Tech University, Canada. His research interests include criminological theory, gun ownership, police legitimacy, policy on ascetic deviance, and race and ethnicity in criminal justice. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004) and co-authors of Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (2014) with LanYing Huang and Ivan Y. Sun. In addition, he co-edited book Lessons of International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice with John Winterdyk (2004), and Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014) with Ivan Y. Sun and Bill Hebenton.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Legitimacy in Criminal Justice
Book Subtitle: Conceptual and Measurement Challenges
Editors: Liqun Cao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17731-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17730-9Published: 18 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17733-0Published: 19 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17731-6Published: 17 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 167
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminological Theory, Critical Criminology, Research Methods in Criminology, Transnational Crime