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Kristina Murphy

Kristina Murphy

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Law
Australia
2026
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Law and Political Science
Australia
2023

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Law

D-Index
49
Citations
10645
World Ranking
56
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Kristina Murphy is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with particular expertise in sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics related to policing, crime, social psychology, and public safety issues. Notably, Murphy has contributed extensively to the study of policing practices and perceptions, crime patterns and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, sexual assault and victimization studies, misinformation and its impacts, migration, refugees and integration, as well as terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Murphy include:

  • "Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?" (2020), published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
  • "Building Immigrants' Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants' Willingness to Cooperate with Police" (2021), published in The British Journal of Criminology

Murphy's work has been published in various academic venues, with frequent publications in Policing & Society, Policing An International Journal, The British Journal of Criminology, International Criminology, and the Journal of Experimental Criminology.

  • Policing & Society
  • Policing An International Journal
  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • International Criminology
  • Journal of Experimental Criminology

Their research collaborations often involve coauthors such as Elise Sargeant, Harley Williamson, Molly McCarthy, Natasha S. Madon, and Ben Bradford.

  • Elise Sargeant
  • Harley Williamson
  • Molly McCarthy
  • Natasha S. Madon
  • Ben Bradford

Best Publications

  • Public Satisfaction With Police: Using Procedural Justice to Improve Police Legitimacy

    Lynette Robyn Hinds;Kristina Murphy

  • The role of trust in nurturing compliance: A study of accused tax avoiders

    Kristina Murphy

  • Regulating More Effectively: The Relationship between Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Tax Non-compliance

    Kristina Murphy

  • Encouraging public cooperation and support for police

    Kristina Murphy;Lynette Robyn Hinds;Jenny Fleming

  • Nurturing regulatory compliance: Is procedural justice effective when people question the legitimacy of the law?

    Kristina Murphy;Tom R. Tyler;Amy Curtis

  • Officers as Mirrors Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity

    Ben Bradford;Kristina Murphy;Jonathan Jackson

  • Procedural justice and compliance behaviour: the mediating role of emotions

    Kristina Murphy;Tom Tyler

  • Understanding Cooperation With Police in a Diverse Society

    Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Taxation Threat, Motivational Postures, and Responsive Regulation

    Valerie Braithwaite;Kristina Murphy;Monika Reinhart

  • Fostering cooperation with the police: How do ethnic minorities in Australia respond to procedural justice-based policing?

    Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Promoting trust in police: findings from a randomised experimental field trial of procedural justice policing

    Kristina Murphy;Lorraine Mazerolle;Sarah Bennett

  • Public Satisfaction With Police: The Importance of Procedural Justice and Police Performance in Police-Citizen Encounters

    Kristina Murphy

  • Shaming, Shame and Recidivism: a test of reintegrative shaming theory in the White-Collar crime context

    Kristina Murphy;Nathan Harris

  • Enforcing Tax Compliance: To Punish or Persuade?

    Kristina Murphy

  • Ethnicity, trust and cooperation with police: testing the dominance of the process-based model

    Elise Sargeant;Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Does procedural justice matter to youth? Comparing adults' and youths' willingness to collaborate with police

    Kristina Murphy

  • Victim Willingness to Report Crime to Police: Does Procedural Justice or Outcome Matter Most?

    Kristina Murphy;Julie May Barkworth

  • Procedural justice policing and citizen compliance behaviour: the importance of emotion

    Julie May Barkworth;Kristina Murphy

  • Being a ‘suspect community’ in a post 9/11 world – The impact of the war on terror on Muslim communities in Australia:

    Adrian Cherney;Kristina Murphy

  • Procedural Justice and Tax Compliance

    Kristina Murphy

  • Why people comply with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty?

    Kristina Murphy;Harley Williamson;Elise Sargeant;Molly McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorraine Mazerolle
Lorraine Mazerolle University of Queensland
Ben Bradford
Ben Bradford University College London
Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson London School of Economics and Political Science
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Valerie Braithwaite
Valerie Braithwaite Australian National University
Elinor McKone
Elinor McKone Australian National University
Michael Wenzel
Michael Wenzel Flinders University

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