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Slovenian Resident and Police Officer Evaluations of the Harm Caused by Different Types of Police Deviance

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Studying police integrity is important because of the specificity of police work and the ability of the police to encroach upon individuals’ rights and freedom. A discussion of police deviance needs to consider police corruption, police misconduct, and police crime. Using the methodology for measuring police integrity, developed by Klockars and Kutnjak Ivković (Police integrity and ethics, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA, 2004), Klockars et al. (Enhancing police integrity. Springer, New York, 2006), and upgraded by Kutnjak Ivković (Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 32(3), 459–488, 2009b), the chapter presents the results of a study conducted on a sample of 550 Slovenian police officers and 338 Slovenian residents. Respondents evaluated the seriousness of behaviors described in 14 different scenarios, which included different types of police deviance from all three police deviance categories. Police officers evaluated the described actions as very serious and inappropriate. They believed that their colleagues’ assessments would be the same, whereas the residents believed that their local police officers would not assess such behaviors as very serious.

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  1. 1.

    One type of effect size, the standardized mean effect, expresses the mean difference between two groups in standard deviation units. Typically, this is reported as Cohen’s d. Though the values calculated for effect size are generally low, they share the same range as standard deviation (−3.0 to 3.0) and can thus be quite large. Interpretation depends on the research question. The meaning of effect size varies according to context. The standard interpretation offered by Cohen is:.8 = large;.5 = moderate;.2 = small (https://researchrundowns.com/quantitative-methods/effect-size/).

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    For more detail see chapter IV. Complaints against the Work of Police Officers in Police Tasks and Powers Act (2013).

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    Branko Lobnikar, Gorazd Meško, Aljaž Hölzl & Kaja Prislan

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Lobnikar, B., Meško, G., Hölzl, A., Prislan, K. (2019). Slovenian Resident and Police Officer Evaluations of the Harm Caused by Different Types of Police Deviance. In: Kutnjak Ivković, S., Haberfeld, M.R. (eds) Exploring Police Integrity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29065-8_11

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