Trusting The Police: Comparisons Across Eastern And Western Europe (culture And Social Practice)
by Silvia Staubli /
2017 / English / PDF
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For the police, work effectiveness or fairness in encounters is especially important to ensure institutional trust and procedural fairness. Emphasizing social trust and criminal victimization, Silvia Staubli offers an analysis of attitudes toward the police in Eastern and Western Europe, addressing sociology, political science, criminology, and social anthropology equally. The study provides insight on how public opinion toward institutions is shaped.
This book is based on my PhD thesis, which I successfully defended in autumn 2014 at the University of Zurich. In order to make it more readable, I re-designed and re-organized the content. The two major changes were firstly, that I deleted some background information on methods and moved others to the Appendices. Secondly, I incorporated results for Switzerland in each chapter, whereas before, they were collected and displayed in a single section. Subsequently, some country-specific information and in-depth analyses have been omitted. Readers interested specifically in the case of Switzerland should look at the original PhD version (Staubli 2014).
