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  • Dull compulsion or perceived legitimacy? Assessing why people comply with the law in Nigeria

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    Author(s)
    Akinlabi, Oluwagbenga Michael
    Murphy, Kristina
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    Murphy, Kristina
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    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 Tankebe (2009) refers to as dull compulsion)? Prior studies have shown that compliance is driven primarily by perceptions that authorities and their laws are legitimate and entitled to be obeyed. Using cross-sectional survey data collected from Southwest Nigeria, this study found that perceptions of police effectiveness and procedural justice were related to Nigerians’ self-reported compliance with the law. Importantly, and unexpectedly, ...
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    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 Tankebe (2009) refers to as dull compulsion)? Prior studies have shown that compliance is driven primarily by perceptions that authorities and their laws are legitimate and entitled to be obeyed. Using cross-sectional survey data collected from Southwest Nigeria, this study found that perceptions of police effectiveness and procedural justice were related to Nigerians’ self-reported compliance with the law. Importantly, and unexpectedly, neither dull compulsion nor perceptions of police legitimacy were related to Nigerians’ self-reported compliance behaviour. The implications of these findings for policing in postcolonial African societies are discussed.
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    Journal Title
    Police Practice and Research
    Volume
    19
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2018.1418170
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Police Practice and Research on 04 Feb 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2018.1418170
    Subject
    Criminology
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381335
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