RT Article
T1 Why do People's complaints still fall on the police? Confidence in the police in Trinidad and Tobago
JF International journal of law, crime and justice
VO 60
SP 1
OP 12
A1 Baek, Hyunin
A1 Han, Sungil
A1 Seepersad, Randy
A2 Han, Sungil
A2 Seepersad, Randy
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692344811
AB Law enforcement agencies in Caribbean countries, especially Trinidad and Tobago, have been struggling with low levels of public confidence. To examine the public-police relationship in these countries, this study proposed and tested two models of public confidence in the police using data from a sample of 1,595 adults in Trinidad and Tobago. Findings from Structural Equation Modeling indicated that public confidence in the police was driven not only by actual crime and fear of crime but also by other variables such as community cohesion, social problems, and informal social control. The findings provide valuable insights which help to clarify the nature of the public-police relationship in Trinidad and Tobago and suggest that attention to a wider range of variables can be used to build public confidence in the police.
K1 Confidence in the police
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Informal Social Control
K1 Social Cohesion
K1 Social Problems
K1 Trinidad and Tobago
DO 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2019.100360