Victim Willingness to Engage with the Kenya Criminal Justice System: Does Informational Justice Matter?

Abstract

Previous research on procedural policing in the west has found procedural justice to be imperative in fostering victims’ satisfaction with the police. There is also evidence that aspects of procedural justice impact on the willingness of victims to engage with the police and also affects the perceptions about police legitimacy. However, what remains unexplored is whether aspects of procedural justice such as perceptions of informational justice impacts victims’ willingness to engage with the criminal justice system. The study sought to examine the perceptions of informational justice among victims in Kenya criminal justice system and establish whether such perceptions affect victims’ willingness to engage with the Kenya criminal justice system. The current study utilizes survey data collected from 82 crime victims to show whether informational justice impacts victims’ willingness to engage with the Kenya criminal justice system