| Autor: |
Helmut Kury, Charles B. Fields, Miran Mitar, Gorazd Meško |
| Rok vydání: |
2009 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management. 32:415-430 |
| ISSN: |
1363-951X |
| DOI: |
10.1108/13639510910981581 |
| Popis: |
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and describe police officers' opinions on the prevailing anxieties, feeling of fears and threats, attitudes towards crime and punishment.Design/methodology/approachThe paper took a quantitative approach to data collection that included a survey on a representative sample of the Slovene police.FindingsComparisons of attitudes (anxieties of everyday troubles, feelings of insecurity, importance of appropriate measures against crime and adequate severity of punishment) has been conducted to find similarities and differences between police officers regarding gender and age. The results show that male police officers and senior police officers have more conservative attitudes towards the most appropriate measures against crime and are more likely to defend severe punishment of offenders. Such attitudes indicate persistence of traditional authoritarian police orientation in (post)modern society.Research limitations/implicationsThe results are generalizable for the Slovenian police but not generalizable for the police worldwide.Practical implicationsA useful source of information learning about some characteristics of police professional culture and police officers' attitudes towards punishment and their understanding of threats in society.Originality/valueThis paper furthers understanding of police occupational culture in a new democratic country. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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