DISCRIMINATION IN POLICING – PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIMENSION Cover Image

ДИСКРИМИНАЦИЈА У РАДУ ПОЛИЦИЈЕ – ФЕНОМЕНОЛОШКА ДИМЕНЗИЈА
DISCRIMINATION IN POLICING – PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIMENSION

Author(s): Radomir Zekavica, Zoran Kesić
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: police; discrimination; police authority; abuse

Summary/Abstract: The authors find the purpose of writing this paper in the necessary clarifications of an extremely complex phenomenon which is in the scientific and professional literature known as "police discrimination." This is more so because the issue of police discrimination in local literature has not so far been sufficiently discussed, at least not in the scientific-theoretical and empirical research on this phenomenon. Having in mind that the theoretical and working definition of the object of this research is the first and indispensable step to comprehend the indicators of the tudied phenomenon, it seemed important to us to consider in the work the very concept of police discrimination and the ways of manifestation of this phenomenon. For this purpose, the paper firstly gives a conceptual definition of police discrimination, and then its basic forms and categorization. Our aspiration was to, at least partially, remove certain ambiguities and increase the interest of the academic community to research this phenomenon, not only in the form of its theoretical analysis, but also through its empirical research in Serbian society. The need for this stems primarily from the fact that, in our environment, the empirical studies have not been conducted in a sufficient number that would systematically and comprehensively research the phenomenon of police discrimination, so that a number of indicators of its phenomenon and its extent are mainly the result of suppositions and free estimations.

  • Issue Year: XL/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-68
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian
Toggle Accessibility Mode