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Law
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2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Law D-index 34 Citations 8,211 161 World Ranking 79 National Ranking 5

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Social psychology

Ben Bradford focuses on Procedural justice, Legitimacy, Public relations, Public opinion and Police science. His Procedural justice study combines topics in areas such as Organizational justice, Social psychology, Criminology and Criminal justice ethics. His Legitimacy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Criminal justice, Morality and Economic Justice.

Ben Bradford has researched Public relations in several fields, including Test and Compliance. Ben Bradford has researched Public opinion in several fields, including Social change, Metropolitan police and Social control. His Metropolitan police research includes elements of Fear of crime, Public trust and Applied psychology.

His most cited work include:

  • Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions (418 citations)
  • Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police (287 citations)
  • Procedural Justice, Trust, and Institutional Legitimacy (275 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Ben Bradford mainly focuses on Legitimacy, Procedural justice, Criminology, Public relations and Law. His Legitimacy research integrates issues from Public trust, Compliance, Economic Justice, European Social Survey and Normative. He usually deals with Public trust and limits it to topics linked to Social control and Ethnic group.

As part of the same scientific family, Ben Bradford usually focuses on Procedural justice, concentrating on Social identity theory and intersecting with Social group. Ben Bradford has included themes like Social order, Police legitimacy and Control in his Criminology study. His work deals with themes such as Justice, Metropolitan police and Public opinion, which intersect with Public relations.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Legitimacy (48.65%)
  • Procedural justice (43.78%)
  • Criminology (38.38%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Criminology (38.38%)
  • Legitimacy (48.65%)
  • Procedural justice (43.78%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Criminology, Legitimacy, Procedural justice, Social psychology and Compliance. The concepts of his Criminology study are interwoven with issues in Ethnic group, Terrorism and Psychological research. Ben Bradford interconnects Test, Public relations, Identity and Internet privacy in the investigation of issues within Legitimacy.

Ben Bradford undertakes interdisciplinary study in the fields of Procedural justice and Context through his research. His Social psychology research includes themes of Worry, Dysfunctional family and Quality of life. His research integrates issues of Cynicism and Government, Law, Enforcement, Role model in his study of Compliance.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The lockdown and social norms: why the UK is complying by consent rather than compulsion (5 citations)
  • “Truly free consent”? Clarifying the nature of police legitimacy using causal mediation analysis (3 citations)
  • Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale (3 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Social psychology

Ben Bradford spends much of his time researching Legitimacy, Criminology, Compliance, Procedural justice and Normative. The Legitimacy study combines topics in areas such as Test, Social psychology and Internet privacy. His Criminology study frequently draws connections between adjacent fields such as Terrorism.

His Compliance research incorporates elements of Cynicism, Law, Role model and Control. His Procedural justice study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Enforcement, Democracy, State and Intervention. His studies deal with areas such as Vignette, Norm and Obligation as well as Normative.

This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.

Best Publications

Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Mike Hough;Andy Myhill.
British Journal of Criminology (2012)

986 Citations

Does the Fear of Crime Erode Public Confidence in Policing

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Katrin Hohl;Stephen Farrall.
Policing-an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management (2009)

91 Citations

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