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This book updates the recent quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical literature on legitimacy, focusing on how it can be measured in diversified research environments. Highlighting the different measurements and the critique surrounding them, this volume is a coherent and systematic guide to theory on legitimacy. This book is divided into three sections:
- Theoretical framework
- Legitimacy and its measures
- Legitimacy International
Within these three parts, individual chapters are expected to provide in-depth analysis of core topics, including development, measurement, and cultural disparities, and collectively represent a comprehensive review of legitimacy in theory and in methodology in the global context.
The book is ideal for researchers and graduate criminology and criminal justice students.
List of contents
Section I Theoretical Frame of Legitimacy.- Chapter 1 Historical Themes of Legitimacy.- Chapter 2 Legitimacy and its critiques: A cautionary note.- Section II Legitimacy and its Measures.- Chapter 3 The Meaning and Measurement of Perceived Legitimacy.- Chapter 4 Legitimacy and its Consequences with a special gaze at race/ethnicity.- Chapter 5 Protest movement and legitimacy in democracy.- Chapter 6 Future Research on Legitimacy and its Measures.- Section III The Empirical Study of Legitimacy in International Context.- Chapter 7 The Empirical Studies of Legitimacy in the West.- Chapter 8 Exploration of Legitimacy in East Asia.- Chapter 9 Application of Legitimacy in Africa and Latin America.
About the author
Liqun Cao, Ph.D., is Professor of sociology and criminology at Ontario Tech University, Canada. His research interests include criminological theory, gun ownership, police legitimacy, policy on ascetic deviance, and race and ethnicity in criminal justice. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals. He is the author of
Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004) and co-authors of
Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (2014) with LanYing Huang and Ivan Y. Sun. In addition, he co-edited book Lessons of International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice with John Winterdyk (2004), and
Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014) with Ivan Y. Sun and Bill Hebenton.
