Jaká je ochota občanů spolupracovat s policií a co ji ovlivňuje?

• Authors: Eva Moravcová

Title variants

EN

What is people’s willingness to cooperate with the police and what affects it?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The majority of crime is not detected by the police itself. Its work, if it is to be effective, depends heavily on the people’s willingness to cooperate with the police. The paper compares the degree of such cooperation between the Czech Republic and other European countries that participated on the ESS R 5 research and focuses on factors influencing the cooperation. Education, feelings of safety when walking alone in local areas after dark and satisfaction with police officers’ treatment all play an important role in explaining people’s willingness to cooperate with the police. Further, results of the analyses show that the Czech Republic and other post-communist countries alike suffer from relatively low legitimacy of the police as well as low degree of public cooperation with this institution. Moreover, the data suggest that perceived legitimacy of the police is considerably influenced by public trust in it and perception of its transparency. However, these seem to be still relatively low in the Czech Republic.

Keywords

EN

willingness to cooperate with the police; legitimacy of the police; trust in the police; ESS R 5

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 47-56

Contributors

author

Eva Moravcová

• CVVM, SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/1214-438X.2013.11.1.5