Flutterby™! : Procedural Justice

Procedural Justice: The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice. On Judge Victoria Pratt in a Newark, New Jersey municipal court.

Criminal justice systems everywhere run on the assumption that people obey the law because they are afraid of punishment. B Tyler argued that the key factor is legitimacy: people obey the law because they believe the state has the right to tell them what to do. Broad legitimacy matters more than whether people believe an individual law to be right or wrong – although the public’s view about individual laws can influence broad legitimacy.