University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences
Abstract
Citizen’s crime-reporting is generally low, with a number of factors affecting its prevalence and incidence. Research suggests that
there is an interrelationship between the type of contacts citizens have with the police (e.g., citizen-initiated or police-initiated), attitudes
toward the police, police behavior, and crime-reporting behavior. To determine whether citizen interactions with the police
infl uence crime-reporting behavior and attitudes toward the police, this study tested four research hypotheses. The fi ndings of this
study suggest that predictors such as citizen-initiated contacts, police-initiated contacts, frequency of those contacts, and exposure
to media about police misconduct cannot be used as a group but rather individually to predict all three different levels of crimereporting
behavior (i.e., reporting of less serious crimes, reporting of medium-level crimes, and reporting of serious crimes).Prijavljivanje kriminalnog ponašanja kod građana je relativno nisko, a mnogi čimbenici utječu na prevalenciju i incidenciju. Istraživanja
ukazuju da postoji povezanost između vrste kontakta između građana i policije (iniciran od strane građana, iniciran od strane
policije), stavova prema policiji, ponašanja policajaca i prijavljivanja kriminalnog ponašanja. S ciljem utvrđivanja utječe li interakcija
građana s policijom na prijavljivanje kriminalnih oblika ponašanja i na stavove prema policiji, ovo istraživanje testira četiri
postavljene hipoteze. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju da prediktore (poput kontakata iniciranih od strane građana ili od strane policije,
učestalosti tih kontakata, izloženosti utjecaju medija o lošem postupanju policije), treba sagledavati individualno u odnosu na razinu
prijavljivanja kriminalnog ponašanja (primjerice, prijavljivanje lakših, srednje ozbiljnih i teških kaznenih djela)
