The Influence of Contact on Police Performance: The Mediating Effects of Corruption Perception

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2019.04.007

Abstract

Abstract: As the one who interacts with police， the public plays a significant role in police performance evaluation. Using the SGSS data in 2017 and factor analysis， this article identifies four dimensions of public assessment of police performance: legitimate performance， skill performance， responsive performance， and the equity performance. Public contact with the police is an important factor affecting the evaluation of police performance. The article argues that corruption perception， the mediating variable， makes it reasonable why contact has an important effect on police performance. According to the SEM model， the frequency of contact is not so important and the nature of contact matters. Compared with passive contact， active contact with the police can improve citizens' perception of government corruption， and lower the level of police performance evaluation by the public. Corruption perception plays a partial mediating role between passive contact and police performance evaluation， and has a full mediating effect between active contact and police performance evaluation.

Key words: police performance, corruption perception, contact, SEM

CLC Number:

D035

SUN Zong-feng， ZHAO Wen-bo， LI Jin-tao. The Influence of Contact on Police Performance: The Mediating Effects of Corruption Perception[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2019, 21(4): 373-380.

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