Shades of blue: Exploring the code of silence in Croatia and Serbia

This paper examines the factors affecting police officer willingness to adhere to a code of silence among the police in Croatia and Serbia. The paper explores the factors predicting police codes of silence in two countries formed after the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s that...

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Main Author: Peacock, Robert (Author)
Contributors: Prpić, Marko ; Kutnjak Ivković, Sanja ; Cajner Mraović, Irena ; Božović, Vladimir
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
Year: 2022, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-182
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Croatia
Police integrity
Police misconduct
Serbia
code of silence
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Summary:This paper examines the factors affecting police officer willingness to adhere to a code of silence among the police in Croatia and Serbia. The paper explores the factors predicting police codes of silence in two countries formed after the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s that pursued separate development paths. A police integrity questionnaire recorded the views of 1,007 police officers in Croatia and 1,843 police officers in Serbia. Multivariate modelling was used to analyse the predictors of officers’ perceptions of whether they would report the violation in different scenarios. Decades since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the results indicate that many of the factors predicting the code of silence remain similar across police officers in the two countries.
ISSN:2157-6475
DOI:10.1080/01924036.2020.1824872