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Contents:

Introduction
Antoinette Verhage, Lieselot Bisschop, Dominique Boels & Wim Hardyns

Articles

Crafting the domain of policing and public health in Amsterdam
Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg (1) & Auke J. van Dijk (2)

Abstract
Policing and public health are intimately related in practice but an explicit conceptual framework is missing. The processes of so-called glocalization and of organizations (and issues) becoming increasingly ‘boundary-less’ – especially in the city – explain part of the growing importance of the intersection of policing and public health. But these processes do not provide a conceptual frame, nor does this perspective lead to the much needed practical knowledge on how to craft this emerging domain. This contribution will use the current strategic challenges for the police in the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam as an illustration of the character and importance of the relations between policing and public health. Many issues require close cooperation between the police and public health organizations. Although much has been accomplished there is still a lot left to be desired. Extrapolation of present-day developments suggests that existing modes of cooperation might not be sufficient and that we need to fundamentally rethink the relation between policing and public health. This article concludes with a tentative agenda for explorative research.

Keywords: police, Law enforcement, Public health, Harm reduction, crafting

(1) Chief Constable of the Amsterdam Police.
(2) senior strategic advisor with the Dutch police.

Instrumental and affective influences on public trust and police legitimacy in Spain
Ben Bradford (1), Richard Martin (2), José García-Añón (3), Andrés Gascón-Cuenca (4), José Antonio García-Saez (5) & Antoni Llorente-Ferreres (6)

Abstract
Two approaches to the nature and sources of public trust and police legitimacy can be distinguished: the instrumental and the affective. On the first account, people trust in police when they judge it effective in enforcing the law and fighting crime; and they hold police more legitimate when they believe these things to be true. On the second account, trust and legitimacy are bound up with relational concerns about the quality of police behavior, and expressive factors relating to the perceived ability of communities and police to maintain and reproduce social cohesion and order. Studies in Anglophone contexts tend to conclude that this ‘affective’ account provides greater explanatory power. This paper explores these ideas in a new context. Using data from a nationwide survey conducted in Spain we examine: (a) the relative strength of instrumental or affective predictors of trust; and (b) whether trust in police fairness is a more or less important predictor of legitimacy than trust in police effectiveness. Adding to the weight of international evidence concerning the ways people think about and experience policing, evidence for the primacy of the affective account is presented.

Keywords: Police; trust; legitimacy; public opinion; Spain

(1) Department Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
(2) DPhil Candidate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
(3) Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law, School of Law, University of Valencia
(4) Researcher Assistant at the Human Rights Institute, University of Valencia
(5) Full Professor at the Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, University of Coahuila (Mexico).
(6) Member of the Human Rights Institute, University of Valencia

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