Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city
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Resumo: | We examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil. According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous circle, whereby normatively appropriate police behavior encourages people to self-regulate, which then reduces the need for coercive forms of social control. But can consensual and coercive police–citizen relations be so easily disentangled in a city in which many people fear crime, where the ability to use force can often be palpable in even mundane police–citizen interactions, where some people fear police but also tolerate extreme police violence, and where the image of the military police as “just another (violent) gang” has significant cultural currency? Legitimacy has two components—assent (ascribed right to power) and consent (conferred right to govern)—and consistent with prior work from the US, UK, and Australia, we find that procedural justice is key to the legitimation of the police. Yet, the empirical link between legitimacy and legal compliance is complicated by ambivalent authority relations, rooted in part in heightened cultural expectations about police use of force to exercise power. We finish the paper with a discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of these findings. |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear cityCiências Sociais::SociologiaSocial SciencesWe examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil. According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous circle, whereby normatively appropriate police behavior encourages people to self-regulate, which then reduces the need for coercive forms of social control. But can consensual and coercive police–citizen relations be so easily disentangled in a city in which many people fear crime, where the ability to use force can often be palpable in even mundane police–citizen interactions, where some people fear police but also tolerate extreme police violence, and where the image of the military police as “just another (violent) gang” has significant cultural currency? Legitimacy has two components—assent (ascribed right to power) and consent (conferred right to govern)—and consistent with prior work from the US, UK, and Australia, we find that procedural justice is key to the legitimation of the police. Yet, the empirical link between legitimacy and legal compliance is complicated by ambivalent authority relations, rooted in part in heightened cultural expectations about police use of force to exercise power. We finish the paper with a discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of these findings.The studies received financial support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) as part of the project “Building democracy daily: human rights, violence, and institutional trust” (CEPID-FAPESP c-07923-7). This study was conducted in part by the Research Center in Political Science (UIDB/CPO/00758/2020), University of Minho, and was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds.WileyUniversidade do MinhoJackson, JonathanPósch, KrisztiánOliveira, Thiago R.Bradford, BenMendes, Sílvia M.Natal, Ariadne LimaZanetic, André20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/83809engJackson, J., Pósch, K., Oliveira, T. R., Bradford, B., Mendes, S. M., Natal, A. L., & Zanetic, A. (2022, February 13). Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil:Police–citizenrelations in a high violence, high fear city. Law & Society Review. Wiley. http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.125891540-58930023-921610.1111/lasr.12589https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12589info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-30T01:24:17Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/83809Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:04:41.053630Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city Jackson, Jonathan Ciências Sociais::Sociologia Social Sciences |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city |
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Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil: police–citizen relations in a high violence, high fear city |
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Jackson, Jonathan |
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Jackson, Jonathan Pósch, Krisztián Oliveira, Thiago R. Bradford, Ben Mendes, Sílvia M. Natal, Ariadne Lima Zanetic, André |
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Pósch, Krisztián Oliveira, Thiago R. Bradford, Ben Mendes, Sílvia M. Natal, Ariadne Lima Zanetic, André |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Jackson, Jonathan Pósch, Krisztián Oliveira, Thiago R. Bradford, Ben Mendes, Sílvia M. Natal, Ariadne Lima Zanetic, André |
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Ciências Sociais::Sociologia Social Sciences |
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We examine consensual and coercive police–citizen relations in São Paulo, Brazil. According to procedural justice theory, popular legitimacy operates as part of a virtuous circle, whereby normatively appropriate police behavior encourages people to self-regulate, which then reduces the need for coercive forms of social control. But can consensual and coercive police–citizen relations be so easily disentangled in a city in which many people fear crime, where the ability to use force can often be palpable in even mundane police–citizen interactions, where some people fear police but also tolerate extreme police violence, and where the image of the military police as “just another (violent) gang” has significant cultural currency? Legitimacy has two components—assent (ascribed right to power) and consent (conferred right to govern)—and consistent with prior work from the US, UK, and Australia, we find that procedural justice is key to the legitimation of the police. Yet, the empirical link between legitimacy and legal compliance is complicated by ambivalent authority relations, rooted in part in heightened cultural expectations about police use of force to exercise power. We finish the paper with a discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of these findings. |
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Jackson, J., Pósch, K., Oliveira, T. R., Bradford, B., Mendes, S. M., Natal, A. L., & Zanetic, A. (2022, February 13). Fear and legitimacy in São Paulo, Brazil:Police–citizenrelations in a high violence, high fear city. Law & Society Review. Wiley. http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12589 1540-5893 0023-9216 10.1111/lasr.12589 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12589 |
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