Abstract
The paper concerns the level of trust in the criminal justice system and its correlates in Czech society. The main focus lies in the assessment of the relation of trust in the police and compliance to the law, as stated by the procedural justice theory.
The hypothesis has been tested on representative Czech datasets obtained in two studies using similar items, yet employing different sampling methods. The former stems from the Trust in Justice module, fielded within the European Social Survey in 2010, Round 5 (stratified three stage random sampling, N = 2386).
The latter originates from an extended version of the module, as suggested in Eurojustis pilot surveys, and fielded by Charles University in 2011 (quota sampling, N = 1199). We compare the quality of models of compliance to the law using both datasets.
Conclusions regarding the sampling method are drawn, as well as theoretical implications regarding the validity of the procedural justice hypothesis within the central European context.