Naslov
Police Effectiveness as the Influencing Factor of the Community Policing Strategy on Citizens' Sense of Safety in Croatia

Autori
Borovec, Krunoslav ; Vitez, Dražen ; Cajner Mraović, Irena

Izvornik
Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo (0034-690X) 65 (2014), 4; 259-271

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Community policing ; sense of safety ; police effectiveness ; evaluation ; Croatia
(community policing ; sense of safety ; police effectiveness ; evaluation ; Croatia)

Sažetak
The main goal of this paper is to determine the connection between the individual components of the Community Policing Strategy in Croatia with the sense of safety, that is, perception of fear of crime, perception of crime risk and frequency, as well as perception of incivilities in Croatia. The research encompassed a total of 1096 respondents over 18 years of age. The field research combined two quantitative methods: telephone interviews and face-to-face interviews in households. The research results indicate that there is a complex relationship between community policing and citizens’ affective and cognitive perception of safety. While certain extracted components positively influence the perception of safety, others are not significantly related or are related contrary to expectations. The result of the quasi-canonical correlation analysis speaks in favour of opinions on the police and perception of police effectiveness in preventing and detecting crime as factors of community policing having the greatest effect on the sense of safety. On the other hand, the perception of incivilities is the main characteristic of the perception of safety that influences the perception of the police. To put it differently, all efforts of community policing that lead to strengthening citizens’ confidence in the police and to building positive opinions, and that increase police visibility are key to achieving success in terms of increased perception of safety.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Sigurnosne i obrambene znanosti

Napomena
Časopis je indeksiran u sljedećim bazama: SSCI Social Science Citation Index, Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia, ZDA Scopus, Elsevier, Philadelphia, ZDA CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Bethesda, Maryland, ZDA Criminal Justice Abstracts, Thousand Oaks, California, ZDA NCJRS Abstracts Database, Rockville, Maryland, ZDA CSA Sociological Abstracts, San Diego, California, ZDA

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