When legal authorities interact with someone in the criminal legal system, their primary concern is too often using their training to determine whether the person has committed a crime—and if so, how they should be held responsible. Broadening this focus can help better understand how people experience the system as they move through it. Their past and current experiences influence their views about the legitimacy of the system, and this, in turn, may influence their behavior.
Agencies—including pretrial services, police departments, court systems, prosecutorial offices, jails, and prisons—can function in ways that improve or undermine their perceived legitimacy to the people the system affects.
This webinar shares research on how to interact with people in ways that promote legitimacy, fairness, and trust—and how to build both internally by fostering a more trusting work culture.
In today’s world in which we know more and more about our pretrial systems, this should be a pre-req. webinar for anyone working within the pretrial system as a whole.