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Analysis of police identity checks in Croatia

The aim of this research was to examine the characteristics of persons whose identities were checked by Croatian police officers. The aim was also to compare the number and certain characteristics of stopped persons by police who have been found to have committed a criminal offense or misdemeanor with persons not previously recorded in police records, or to examine the effectiveness of Croatian police officers in confirming suspicion of committing a certain misdemeanor or criminal offense. The research was conducted on a sample of identity checks performed in four county police administrations in the Republic of Croatia in the last three years. Socio-demographic data were taken into the analysis (gender, age, place of identity checks, whether the stopped person is kept in some other records, whether the person is wanted). The paper will present the analyzed descriptive data on stopped persons ; the ratio of the number of stopped persons and those who have been found to have committed a criminal offense or misdemeanor and the results of a chi- square test which will examine the differences between persons who have been and who have not been found to have committed a criminal offense or misdemeanor taken by the police.

Police identity checks ; Croatia

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