시민에 대한 부정적 인식과 경찰활동의 위축

Abstract

This study examined whether frontline officers' negative perception of citizens affects depolicing. Furthermore, we tried to understand specific mechanism through perceived risk, which explain how negative perception of citizen dampen police activities. In other words, the current study investigated whether the perceived risk plays a mediating role in the relationship between negative perception of citizen and depolicing. Using survey data from 327 frontline officers, this study estimates an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model with robust standard errors. The results indicated that officers' negative perception of citizen was closely associated with increase in the perceived risk. In addition, officers' negative perception of citizen affected depolicing indirectly through the perceived danger rather than directly affecting the deplicing. The implications and limitations of the current study were discussed based on these results