Odrednice (ne)opravdanosti policijske primjene sile

master's thesis

• Title (english): Determinants of the justification of police use of force
• Author: Petra Gotić
• Mentor: Ines Sučić (mentor)
• Committee member: Renata Franc (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Zrinka Greblo Jurakić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ines Sučić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Croatian Studies; (Department of Psychology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2021-09-21, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology

Abstract

Policijska primjena sile i stavovi javnosti o policijskom postupanju imaju važne
društveno-političke posljedice, a procjena (ne)opravdanosti primjene sile u određenim
situacijama varira ovisno o brojnim faktorima. Stoga je cilj ovoga istraživanja bio ispitati
doprinos različitih karakteristika i stavova promatrača percepciji (ne)opravdanosti policijske
primjene sile u kontekstu prosvjeda za prava migranata. Istraživanje je provedeno online
upitnikom na prigodnom uzorku od 404 sudionika te je sudjelovalo 23,1% osoba muškog
spola i 75,9% osoba ženskog spola prosječne dobi od 30 godina. U svrhu istraživanja
konstruirana je hipotetska situacija prosvjeda za prava migranata pri čemu su korištena dva
kriterija policijske primjene sile: slaganje s policijskim poduzimanjem mjera tijekom
prosvjeda te podrška različitim mjerama sigurnosti. U ovom istraživanju korišteni su sljedeći
mjerni instrumenti: Skala orijentacije socijalnoj dominaciji – kratka verzija, Skala osjetljivosti
na nepravdu – kratka verzija, Skala percepcije policije, Upitnik stavova prema razumnoj i
pretjeranoj primjeni sile, Skala stavova prema migrantima, Skala namjere aktivizmu i
radikalizmu i Skala povijesti agresivnog ponašanja. Istraživanjem je utvrđeno kako sudionici
koji imaju negativne stavove prema migrantima te se slažu s razumnom i pretjeranom
primjenom sile više opravdavaju policijsku primjenu sile tijekom prosvjeda za prava
migranata. Dobiveni rezultati ukazuju na to kako se sudionici koji se slažu s razumnom
primjenom sile, koji su desne političke orijentacije i negativnih stavova prema migrantima
ujedno i više slažu s poduzimanjem policijskih mjera tijekom prosvjeda. Pri tome oni
sudionici koji se više slažu s razumnom i pretjeranom primjenom sile, imaju manje izražen
radikalizam i negativne stavove prema migrantima više podržavaju različite mjere sigurnosti
tijekom prosvjeda za prava migranta. Ovim varijablama objašnjeno je 23,9% varijance
slaganja s policijskim poduzimanjem mjera i 42,2% varijance podrške različitim mjerama
sigurnosti te se može koristiti kao polazišna točka u budućim istraživanjima policijske
primjene sile.

Abstract (english)

Police force use and public attitudes toward police behaviour have important social and
political consequences and assessment of (un)justify police force in certain situations depends
on various factors. The aim of this study was to examine contribution of different observes'
characteristics and their attitudes on justification of police force use in context of protest for
immigrant rights. Data were collected online. In total 404 participants took part in the survey
(23,1% males and 75,9% females), with average age of 30 years.For the purpose of this study
a hypothetical situation of protest for the immigrant rights was constructed using two criteria
of police force use: support for police taking action during the protest and support for police
taking specific security measures. In this survey following instruments were used: Social
dominance orientation scale – short version, Scale of justice sensitivity – short version,
Perception of police scale, Scale of attitudes towards reasonable and excessive use of force,
Attitudes towards immigrants scale, Activism and radicalism scale and History of agressive
behavior scale. The results showed that participants who have negative attitudes towards
immigrants and who approve reasonable and excessive use of force also justify police use of
force during the protest for immigrant rights. Furthermore, participants who approve
reasonable use of force, whose political orientation is more right-wing and who have negative
attitudes towards immigrants agree more with police taking actions during the protest. Also,
those participants who approve reasonable and excessive use of force, who are lower on
radicalism and have negative attitudes towards immigrants support more police officers'
taking specific security measures during this protest. This set of variables explains 23,9% of
support toward police taking action and 42,2% of support for police taking specific security
measures. This model can be used as the starting point for further research on the police force
use.

• Keywords: primjena sile; percepcija policije; prosvjedi; imigranti; mjere sigurnosti
• Keywords (english): force use; police perception; protest; immigrants; security measures
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:111:387735
• Study programme: Title: Department of Psychology; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra psihologije (magistar/magistra psihologije)
• Type of resource: Text
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• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2021-10-15 07:08:29