In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory. A procedural justice model of policing is likely to be only loosely coupled with police practice, despite the best intentions, and improvements in procedural justice on the part of police are unlikely to result in corresponding improvements in citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice.
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机译：在美国，行使警察权力以及公众对警察权力使用得当的信任是一再引起关注的问题。当代警察改革的规定认为，如果警察与公民的互动以警察更高程度的程序正义为标志，则公众将更加信任警察，并承担更大的遵守和合作的义务。在这本书中，罗伯特·沃登（Robert E. Worden）和莎拉·麦克莱恩（Sarah J. McLean）认为，改革的程序正义模型是一种海市rage楼。从程序上看，程序正义似乎可以缓解紧张的警察社区关系。但是，仔细研究警察组织和警察与公民的互动，可以发现，这种改革提供的救济实际上是虚幻的。尽管有最好的意图，但是维持警务的程序正义模型可能只是与警察的实践松散地结合在一起，而警察方面的程序正义的改善不太可能相应地改善公民对程序正义的认识。
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