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Response to Criticism: Police Legitimacy, Beyond the Entrenched Niches of Expertise

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The purpose of this article is to first re-state the key points of the rejoinder by Cao and Graham. It then proceeds to defend and clarify the arguments that we have made in our article by raising a few misinterpretations by the two reviewers. I end this article with an advice from John Braithwaite 30 years ago that we should nurture the new endeavors in criminology instead of being united against such undertakings.

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Cao, L. Response to Criticism: Police Legitimacy, Beyond the Entrenched Niches of Expertise. Asian J Criminol 14, 337–340 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-019-09302-2

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