Understanding Legitimacy in Criminal Justice

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.

• 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.