How perceptions and personal contact matter: The individual-level determinants of trust in police in Hungary
| Autor: | Zsolt Boda, Gergő Medve-Bálint |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Salience (language) Corruption media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Context (language use) Suicide prevention Perception 050501 criminology Personal experience Psychology Law Social psychology 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Policing and Society. 27:732-749 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2728 1043-9463 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10439463.2015.1053479 |
| Popis: | In established democracies perceptions about police effectiveness and procedural fairness are the main individual-level determinants of trust in police. However, very little is known about whether this is also the case in different circumstances. By analysing trust in police in Hungary, in an East Central European context, the paper finds that the same micro-level factors have a similar relationship with trust in police there as in established democracies. Both the perceptions of police performance and fairness are significant contributors to trust as well as individual judgements about the country's current affairs. However, people attribute different salience to distinct aspects of procedural fairness: Hungarians are sensitive to police corruption, but less so to discriminative police behaviour. Finally, the overall effect of personal contact with the police on trust is negative, but distinguishing those who reported negative personal experiences from those who were satisfied with how the police treated... |
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