Investigating the Relation Between Police Behavior and Perceptions of Procedural Justice: A Response to Rick Trinkner

• Author: Bo L. Terpstra,Peter W. van Wijck
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00224278221135807
• Published date: 01 May 2023
• Date: 01 May 2023
• Subject Matter: Response

Investigating the

Relation Between

Police Behavior

and Perceptions

of Procedural Justice:

A Response to Rick

Trinkner

Bo L. Terpstra

1

and

Peter W. van Wijck

1

Keywords

procedural justice, behavior, perceptions, f‌ield research

Introduction

In “The inf‌luence of police treatment and decision-making on percep-

tions of procedural justice: A f‌ield study”we investigated whether

police-behavior that signals higher quality of treatment or decision-

making leads to higher perceived procedural justice (Terpstra & van

Wijck, 2021). We found no evidence that this is the case. Trinker

(2022) argues that, based on our research, it would be premature to con-

clude that behavior signaling fairer treatment and decision-making is

unassociated with the procedural justice judgment of those interacting

1

Leiden Law School, Leiden, Netherlands

Corresponding Author:

Bo L. Terpstra, Assistant professor, Leiden Law School, PO Box 9520, 2300 RA Leiden,

Netherlands.

Email: b.l.terpstra@law.leidenuniv.nl

Response

Journal of Research in Crime and

Delinquency

2023, Vol. 60(3) 393–401

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