The space between: Trustworthiness and trust in the police among three immigrant groups in Australia

IF 1.9 Q3 MANAGEMENT Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/21515581.2022.2155659
B. Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, Kristina Murphy, E. Sargeant
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Research regularly finds significant variation in the perceived trustworthiness of police across different social groups. For example, studies from a number of different countries have shown that people from particular ethnic and racial minority groups tend to have less positive evaluations and lower expectations of police effectiveness, benevolence and integrity, compared to their majority group counterparts. However, much less is known about how trust – as a willingness to be vulnerable under conditions of risk – varies across groups. Moreover, the criminological literature regularly conflates trustworthiness and trust, and/or assumes the former translates unproblematically into the latter. In this paper, we use data from a survey of three immigrant groups living in Sydney, Australia, to explore the relationship between trustworthiness and trust. We focus on how aspects of the ‘immigrant experience’ may affect the translation of trustworthiness into trust, and whether there are factors that predict trust independent of evaluations of the trust object. Our results show that social norms, which vary across immigrant groups, predict levels of trust independent of trustworthiness, as do other individual and group-level characteristics. This has important implications, both for the conceptualisation and empirical study of trust in the police, and for policy efforts that seek to enhance public trust in this important state institution.
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之间的空间:澳大利亚三个移民群体对警察的信任和信任
研究经常发现,不同社会群体对警察可信度的感知存在显著差异。例如,来自许多不同国家的研究表明,与多数群体相比,来自特定民族和种族少数群体的人往往对警察的效率、仁慈和正直有更低的积极评价和期望。然而,人们对信任(在风险条件下表现出脆弱的意愿)在不同群体之间的差异知之甚少。此外,犯罪学文献经常将诚信和信任混为一谈,并且/或者假设前者可以毫无问题地转化为后者。本文以居住在澳大利亚悉尼的三个移民群体为研究对象,探讨诚信与信任之间的关系。我们关注“移民经历”的各个方面如何影响可信赖性向信任的转化,以及是否存在独立于信任对象评估的预测信任的因素。我们的研究结果表明,不同移民群体的社会规范预测了独立于可信度的信任水平,其他个人和群体层面的特征也是如此。这对于警察信任的概念化和实证研究,以及寻求提高公众对这一重要国家机构信任的政策努力都具有重要意义。
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期刊介绍: As an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural journal dedicated to advancing a cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant journal, JTR provides a focal point for an open dialogue and debate between diverse researchers, thus enhancing the understanding of trust in general and trust-related management in particular, especially in its organizational and social context in the broadest sense. Through both theoretical development and empirical investigation, JTR seeks to open the "black-box" of trust in various contexts.
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