Dr Justice Tankebe

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Fitzwilliam College
  • Associate Professor of Criminology
Dr Justice Tankebe

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About

Dr Tankebe is University Affiliated Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He is also British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He read Sociology as an undergraduate student at the University of Ghana (Legon), before joining Cambridge University in 2004 for his MPhil and doctoral degrees in Criminology at St. Edmund's College. He took his PhD in 2008.

Research

Policing

Corruption

Legitimacy

Procedural Justice

Criminal Justice and Democratisation in Transitional Societies

Sociology of Law

Violence

Crime

Ghana

Publications

Selected publications

Explaining Police Support for Use of Force and Vigilante Violence in Ghana Journal article 1 June 2011 [2011] Policing & Society 21(2): 129-149 Justice Tankebe Public Confidence in the Police: Testing the Effects of Experience of Police Corruption in Ghana Journal article 1 December 2010 [2010] British Journal of Criminology 50: 296 – 319 Justice Tankebe Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana: Does Procedural Fairness Matter? Journal article 1 December 2010 [2009] Criminology 47: 1265 – 1293 Justice Tankebe Self-Help, Policing and Procedural Justice: Vigilantism and the Rule of Law in Ghana Journal article 1 December 2010 [2009] Law and Society Review 43: 245 – 269 Justice Tankebe Identifying the Correlates of Police Organisational Commitment in Ghana Journal article 1 December 2010 [2010] Police Quarterly 13: 73 - 91 Justice Tankebe Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (un)making Chapter 1 December 2010 In Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good, Palgrave Macmillan Justice Tankebe, L. K. Cheliotis, L. K. Cheliotis Legitimacy Chapter 1 December 2010 In Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management Justice Tankebe, R. Canton, D. Hancock, R. Canton, D. Hancock Police Self-Legitimacy: Theory and Evidence 1 November 2010 Justice Tankebe Sociological Theory and Police Research 1 November 2010 Justice Tankebe Understanding Legitimacy: A Dialogic Relationship within Institutional Normative Order 1 October 2010 Justice Tankebe, A. E. Bottoms, A. E. Bottoms
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