Trust In The Police

Trust in the Police in Finland and Great Britain 1981-2008

Juha Kääriäinen, from the Police College of Finland, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime and Society,” under the title “Trust in the Police in Finland and Great Britain 1981-2008″. Here is the abstract: In Europe there are two countries in which the confidence in the police has developed in a distinctly different way. As late as in the early 1980’s in Britain the people trusted the police more than anywhere else in Europe. After this the confidence in the police has diminished distinctly in Britain. In Finland the development has been opposite: the confidence in the police has increased and is at a higher level than in most other European countries at the moment. In this study development in both countries is compared using European Value Survey and some time series on criminal and welfare policy as empirical research data. On the basis of the results it s[rtbs name=”criminology”]

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• “Trust in the Police in Finland and Great Britain 1981-2008”, by Juha Kääriäinen (Proceedings)