The Effect of the 2011 London Disorder on Public Opinion of Police and Attitudes Towards Crime, Disorder, and Sentencing | Zendy

Katrin Hohl | Zendy; Betsy Stanko | Zendy; Tim Newburn | Zendy

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The Effect of the 2011 London Disorder on Public Opinion of Police and Attitudes Towards Crime, Disorder, and Sentencing

Author(s) -

Katrin Hohl,

Betsy Stanko,

Tim Newburn

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

policing a journal of policy and practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 1752-4520

pISSN - 1752-4512

DOI - 10.1093/police/pas055

Subject(s) - authoritarianism , metropolitan area , public opinion , metropolitan police , psychology , viewpoints , criminology , confidence interval , psychiatry , political science , medicine , law , art , politics , visual arts , democracy , pathology

How did the 2011 London disorder affect Londoners? This article presents the findings from a study on the impact of the disorder on Londoners’ attitudes towards the police, sentencing, crime and disorder, using Metropolitan Police Public Attitude Survey (METPAS) data from the weeks before and after the disorder. The findings suggest that while public confidence remained largely steady, confidence is lower (and already was lower prior to the disorder) in those areas of London which were hit hardest by the disorder. We also observed a substantial shift towards greater punitiveness and authoritarian viewpoints following the disorde

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