Dr. Justice Tankebe - Biography

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	Tel: +44 (0)1223 767366
	Email: jt340@cam.ac.uk

University Lecturer

Dr Tankebe is University Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He is also British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He read Sociology as an undergraduate student at the University of Ghana (Legon), before joining Cambridge University in 2004 for his MPhil and doctoral degrees in Criminology at St. Edmund's College. He took his PhD in 2008. His research interests are in the fields of comparative criminology, theoretical criminology, corruption, legitimation and legitimacy of police practices, criminal justice in 'transitional societies', and sociology of law.

Selected Publications

• Tankebe, J. (forthcoming, 2013) “Policing and Eudaemonic Legitimation in Ghana”. Special Issue of Law & Social Inquiry 38(3)
• Tankebe, J. (2013) “The Making of Democracy’s Champions: Police Support for Democracy in Ghana”. Special Issue of Criminology & Criminal Justice doi:10.1177/1748895812469380
• Tankebe, J.(2013) “Viewing Things Differently: Examining the Dimensions of Public Perceptions of Police Legitimacy”. Criminology 51(1): 103-135
• Bottoms, A. and Tankebe, J. (2012) “Beyond Procedural Justice: A Dialogic Approach to Legitimacy in Criminology”. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 102: 119–170
• Reisig, M. D., Tankebe, J. & Meško, G. (2012) “Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Public Cooperation with the Police among Young Slovene Adults”. Journal of Criminology and Security 14(2): 147–164
• Tankebe, J. (2011) 'Explaining Police Support for Use of Force and Vigilante Violence in Ghana', Policing & Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy 21(2): 129-149
• Kautt, P.M. & Tankebe, J. (2011) 'Confidence in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales: A Test of Ethic Effects', International Criminal Justice Review 21(2): 93-117
• Tankebe, J. (2010) ‘Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (un)making’ in L. K. Cheliotis (ed.) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Tankebe, J. (2010) ‘Identifying the Correlates of Police Organisational Commitment in Ghana’, Police Quarterly 13(1): 73 - 91
• Tankebe, J. (2010) ‘Public Confidence in the Police: Testing the Effects of Experience of Police Corruption in Ghana’, British Journal of Criminology 50(2): 296 – 319
• Tankebe, J. (2009) ‘Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana: Does Procedural Fairness Matter?’ Criminology 47(4): 1265 – 1293
• Tankebe, J. (2009) ‘Self-Help, Policing and Procedural Justice: Vigilantism and the Rule of Law in Ghana’, Law and Society Review 43(2): 245 – 269
• Tankebe, J. (2009) ‘Policing, Procedural Fairness and Public Behaviour: A Review and Critique’, Policing: International Journal of Police Strategies and Management 11(1): 8 – 19
• Tankebe, J. (2008) ‘Police Effectiveness and Police Trustworthiness in Ghana: An Empirical Appraisal’, Criminology and Criminal Justice 8(2): 185 – 202
• Tankebe, J. (2008) ‘Colonialism, Legitimation and Policing in Ghana’, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 36(1): 67 – 8
• Tankebe, J. and Gelsthorpe, L. (2007) ‘Legitimacy’ in R. Canton and D. Hancock (eds.) Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing

Recent Presentations

• Tankebe, J. (2010a) Police Self-Legitimacy: Theory and Evidence. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A (November 16 – 20)
• Tankebe, J. (2010b) Sociological Theory and Police Research. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A (November 16 – 20)
• Tankebe, J. (2010) Understanding Legitimacy: A Dialogic Relationship within Institutional Normative Order (with A. E. Bottoms). Invited talk at Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge – U. K. (21 October)
• Tankebe, J. (2010) Whose Legitimacy? Why Legitimacy? Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the European Society, Liège –Belgium (September 8 – 11).
• Tankebe, J. (2009) Consent and Legitimacy in Policing. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia (November 4 – 7).
• Tankebe, J. (2009) Police Legitimacy and the Problem of Multiculturalism. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the European Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Tankebe, J. (2008a) Corruption Reforms, Resistance and Legitimation in Policing. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Tankebe, J. (2008b) (In)visibility, Power and Legitimation. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) On the Cross-Cultural Validity of a Legitimacy Scale: A Study in Ghana. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, St Louis – Missouri, U.S.A.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Legitimation, Internal Conversations and Commitment to Police Work. Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the British Society of Criminology, Huddersfield, U.K.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana: Lessons for Policing Multicultural Societies. Paper Presented at the annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Religion: A Risk or Protective Factor? Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Crime in Ghana (K.E. Boakye). Paper Presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, St Louis – Missouri, U.S.A.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Understanding Police Legitimacy (A. E. Bottoms). Invited talk presented at the Institute of Public Criminology, University of Cardiff, U.K.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Re-Conceptualising Police Legitimacy (A. E. Bottoms). Paper Presented at the annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Tankebe, J. (2008) Legitimacy in Policing: Concepts and Evidence (A. E. Bottoms). Paper Presented at the International Conference on Evidence-based Policing, University of Cambridge, U.K.