‘It Has Totally Changed How I Think About the Police’: COVID-19 and the Mis/Trust of Pandemic Policing in Aotearoa New Zealand

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aut.relation.endpage195
aut.relation.issue2
aut.relation.journalCriminal Justice Review
aut.relation.startpage175
aut.relation.volume49
dc.contributor.authorDeckert, Antje
dc.contributor.authorLong, Nicholas J
dc.contributor.authorAikman, Pounamu Jade
dc.contributor.authorAppleton, Nayantara Sheoran
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Sharyn
dc.contributor.authorFehoko, Edmond
dc.contributor.authorHolroyd, Eleanor
dc.contributor.authorJivraj, Naseem
dc.contributor.authorLaws, Megan
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Nelly
dc.contributor.authorRoguski, Michael
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, Nikita
dc.contributor.authorSterling, Rogena
dc.contributor.authorTunufa'I, Laumua
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-27T02:33:23Z
dc.date.available2024-06-27T02:33:23Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-07
dc.description.abstractIn the initial phase of COVID-19, Aotearoa New Zealand was internationally praised for its pandemic response that included lockdowns to control the spread and work toward elimination. Community compliance with control measures was thus essential when pursuing elimination as a policy. Using a mixed-methods approach, we sought to explore whether New Zealand Police (NZP) were trusted to police the lockdown rules at Levels 4 and 3. We analyzed 1,020 survey responses comparing trust among respondents who had been stopped by NZP over the lockdown rules (contacts) with those who had not (non-contacts). We found that both contacts and non-contacts expressed greater trust in NZP to enforce the Level 4 than the Level 3 rules; contacts expressed less trust in NZP to enforce the lockdown rules than non-contacts; contacts perceived NZP more heavy-handed than non-contacts; contacts perceived NZP as only somewhat procedurally just and feeling somewhat encouraged to comply with the lockdown rules and; that unexpected high-profile policing-related events during the survey only affected contacts’ trust significantly. We offer two explanations: (1) NZP were perceived as procedurally unjust or inconsistent in applying the lockdown rules, (2) members of the public and NZP learned the lockdown rules simultaneously. We caution that the unfamiliar character of pandemic policing may jeopardize trust in NZP even among segments of the population that typically express high levels of trust in NZP, that is, people of European descent. We conclude that community compliance with pandemic control measures is no matter to be dealt with by the criminal legal system.
dc.identifier.citationCriminal Justice Review, ISSN: 0734-0168 (Print); 1556-3839 (Online), SAGE Publications, 49(2), 175-195. doi: 10.1177/07340168231193023
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/07340168231193023
dc.identifier.issn0734-0168
dc.identifier.issn1556-3839
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17717
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07340168231193023
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject4407 Policy and Administration
dc.subject4402 Criminology
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subjectCoronaviruses
dc.subjectEmerging Infectious Diseases
dc.subjectInfectious Diseases
dc.subject1602 Criminology
dc.subject1801 Law
dc.subjectCriminology
dc.subject4402 Criminology
dc.subject4804 Law in context
dc.subject4805 Legal systems
dc.title‘It Has Totally Changed How I Think About the Police’: COVID-19 and the Mis/Trust of Pandemic Policing in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal Article
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