Perceptions of police legitimacy and bias from ages 13 to 22 among Black, Latino, and White justice-involved males.

Abstract

While perceptions of police legitimacy may decline during adolescence before improving during the transition to adulthood, perceptions of police bias are consistently negatively related to youth and young adults' perceptions of police legitimacy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).