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A vital addition to the literature. * Contemporary Sociology * Mirage of Police Reform, by Worden and McLean, is a fresh and timely look at procedural justice, police legitimacy, and community trust... in a very significant way, [it moves] the discussion forward on police and community expectations in still volatile times. * International Criminal Justice Review *

Mirage of Police Reform, by Worden and McLean, is a fresh and timely look at procedural justice, police legitimacy, and community trust... in a very significant way, [it moves] the discussion forward on police and community expectations in still volatile times. * International Criminal Justice Review *

This research is an exemplary demonstration of not only the power of what Morris Janowitz called the engineering model of social science research . . . but also of its limitations. Worden and McLean's findings, some of them surprising, indicate why the procedural justice reform cannot make much difference. * American Journal of Sociology * A vital addition to the literature. * Contemporary Sociology * Mirage of Police Reform, by Worden and McLean, is a fresh and timely look at procedural justice, police legitimacy, and community trust... in a very significant way, [it moves] the discussion forward on police and community expectations in still volatile times. * International Criminal Justice Review *

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Robert E. Worden is Director of the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, SUNY. Sarah J. McLean is Associate Director and Director of Research and Technical Assistance at the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety.

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