Tom R. Tyler Bücher

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Leading scholar Tom R. Tyler provides a timely and engaging introduction to the field of law and psychology. This Advanced Introduction outlines the main areas of research, their relevance to law and the way that psychological findings have shaped – or failed to shape – the corresponding areas of law.Key features Presenting an informative overview of this rapidly developing area, the Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology will be a key resource for students and scholars of law, psychology and the social sciences. It will also be of benefit to psychologists and legal practitioners.

The police and courts rely on community cooperation to maintain order, yet many urban poor harbor distrust toward law enforcement. This study investigates the perceived legitimacy of legal institutions globally, examining relations between courts, police, and communities in the U.K., Western Europe, South Africa, Slovenia, South America, and Mexico. The authors highlight how social context shapes these relationships. For instance, in Slovenia, the transition to Western-style "community policing" was met with suspicion due to the legacy of Communist control, resulting in limited cooperation from citizens. In Guerrero, Mexico, farmers established an extra-legal policing system to address crime, gaining community support when federal authorities failed to act. The authors also explore how perceptions of legitimacy vary across social groups, noting that attitudes toward police differ significantly in unequal societies like Brazil and Chile. Ethnic minorities often exhibit greater distrust and feel targeted by police discrimination, as evidenced by biases in arrests of foreign-born individuals in Germany. The mutual hostility between police and minority communities can escalate into violence, as seen in the Parisian banlieue riots. The case studies underscore the necessity for law enforcement to consider community needs and attitudes to foster cooperation. This research illuminates the factors influencing the success or failure of

Tyler conducted a longitudinal study of 1,575 Chicago inhabitants to determine why people obey the law. His findings show that the law is obeyed primarily because people believe in respecting legitimate authority, not because they fear punishment. The author concludes that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment.

Two previous books in this series, Malcolm Root¿s Railway Paintings and Malcolm Root¿s Transport Paintings, have shown that there is an almost insatiable demand for the paintings of Malcolm Root. An obvious reason for this is the public¿s appetite for recalling life in Britain as it used to be, and as it is so accurately portrayed in each picture. But there is more to this success than pure nostalgia, for the paintings, while meticulous in their detail, are not simply photo-like representations of times past, they are works of art in their own right. It is the skill of the artist, combined with his carefully chosen subjects, that strike an instant chord with his admirers. In this volume Malcolm Root's stunning pictures have been arranged to provide a stirring pageant of the development of transport down the centuries, and in particular over the last one hundred years during which the greatest pace of change has taken place. With each painting supported by a delightful personal text from Tom Tyler this is, once again, a book to treasure and to look through again and again.

This Element analyses a model of policing called 'legitimacy-based policing'. This model is driven by social psychology theory and informed by research findings showing that legitimacy of the police shapes public acceptance of police decisions, willingness to cooperate with the police, and citizen engagement in communities.