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This study examines Chinese police officers' preferences for different formations of responders to domestic violence. Specifically, it assessed the connections between Chinese officers' gender and gender-based attitudes and their perceptions of whether female officers, male officers, or mixed-gender officers are more suited for responding to battered women, offenders, and domestic violence overall. Survey data were collected from 1052 officers, including 278 females and 774 males from four provinces in China. Frequency distributions, cross-tabulations, and multivariate regression were used as data analysis methods. Chinese officers, in general, were more likely to believe that female officers are more suited to work with battered women, the male officer is more apt to handle offenders, and a combination of male and female officers are more adapted to deal with "domestic violence overall". Female officers preferred male officers over themselves in investigating "domestic violence overall." Officers who have more support for gender equality or more tolerance for domestic violence are more likely to believe that, compared to male officers, female officers are more suitable to work with batter women, and a combination of male and female officers is better to provide service to battered women and to respond to "domestic violence overall." Policymakers and police administrators should strive to promote the value of a more gender-balanced police force and involve more female officers to work in responding to domestic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legitimacy has been the focal concern of recent literature on public attitudes toward the police. We found that, although Tyler's model is largely supported by the Chinese data, the strongest predictor of Chinese assessments of police legitimacy is police effectiveness, rather than procedural justice. [Extracted from the article]

Past research has identified several mechanisms of promoting citizen cooperation with the police, with Tyler’s process-based policing model being one of the most frequently tested frameworks in this line of inquiry. Using data collected from a large sample of residents in a large Chinese city, this study assesses an alternative model of Tyler’s work proposed by Tankebe (2013), positing that police legitimacy, embodied in four aspects of procedural justice, distributive justice, effectiveness, and lawfulness, affects people’s obligation to obey the police, which further influences their cooperation with the police. Results from second-order confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis suggested that Tankebe’s work is supported by the Chinese data. Implications for future research and policy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses social conditions in Northeast Asia from a Chinese perspective. Information on the promotion of economic cooperation by Northeast Asia; Reference to the relationship between China (Sino) and Japan; Territorial disputes in Northeast Asia.