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Confidence in the Police: Where does Taiwan Rank in the World?

Confidence in the Police: Where does Taiwan Rank in the World? The study of public opinion toward the police in Taiwan has not, heretofore, included comparative research. The current study fills this void in the literature by analyzing the data from the World Values Surveys. It was found that Taiwanese confidence in the police was reasonably good for a society experiencing democratic transition. Although lower than many more mature democratic societies such as Finland and the USA, confidence in the police is among the top one-third of fifty countries and is significantly higher than those found in other Asian and European countries that also experienced democratic transition. Further regression analyses of data from the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan indicated that the differences between those three countries are substantive and cannot be explained away after the demographic social and attitudinal variables have been controlled. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Criminology Springer Journals

Confidence in the Police: Where does Taiwan Rank in the World?

Cao, Liqun; Dai, Mengyan
Asian Journal of Criminology , Volume 1 (1) – Aug 26, 2006
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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Subject
Energy; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Social Sciences, general; Political Science; Law, general
ISSN
1871-0131
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1871-014X
DOI
10.1007/s11417-006-9001-0
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Abstract

The study of public opinion toward the police in Taiwan has not, heretofore, included comparative research. The current study fills this void in the literature by analyzing the data from the World Values Surveys. It was found that Taiwanese confidence in the police was reasonably good for a society experiencing democratic transition. Although lower than many more mature democratic societies such as Finland and the USA, confidence in the police is among the top one-third of fifty countries and is significantly higher than those found in other Asian and European countries that also experienced democratic transition. Further regression analyses of data from the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan indicated that the differences between those three countries are substantive and cannot be explained away after the demographic social and attitudinal variables have been controlled.

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Asian Journal of Criminology – Springer Journals

Published: Aug 26, 2006

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