South Africans place emphasis on fairness, effectiveness and security when judging police legitimacy

LSE’s Jonathan Jackson and Oxford’s Ben Bradford look at how South Africa’s police force can shore up its legitimacy among its citizens. This post is based on the paper What price fairness when security is at stake? Police legitimacy in South Africa by Ben Bradford, Aziz Z Huq, Jonathan Jackson and Benjamin J Roberts, to be published at Regulation & Governance.