What shapes security guards' trust in police? the role of perceived obligation to obey, procedural fairness, distributive justice, and legal cynicism

Two bodies of research on policing have emerged in recent decades. The first focuses on the growth of private policing4 and the private security industry. While policing is a function of social regulation for the public good, in reality policing by non-state actors is widespread, not only in developed democracies but in emerging and transitional societies as well. Of the non-state actors, the manned security industry has been the most visible element of social regulation and has been the focus of considerable research over the last 30 years, particularly among those scholars interested in examining the phenomenon of “private policing.” While public police officers have been labelled and assumed to be the primary source of crime control up until the 1980s, private security has since slowly begun to play a significant role. Many explanations have been offered for such shifts, and include due shifts in property relations (i.e., mass private property, a term for the spaces in which much public life takes place, among others,