- Title
- Factors Associated with Victimization of Police Officers in Mthatha, South Africa
- Subject
- Citizen crime reporting Victims of crimes surveys Article
- Date Issued
- 2021-09
- Date
- 2021-09
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/7437
- Identifier
- vital:53962
- Identifier
- ("https://doi.org/10.55058/adrrijass.v18i2 (6) July-September.708")
- Description
- This paper provides an analysisof the risk factors that make South African Police Services officers vulnerable to becoming victims of crime. The participants of this study comprise of one hundred and five (105) male and female police officers of various demographics, randomly selected from nine (9) police stations. The study utilised survey instrument (questionnaire) to collect data from the respondents, which were analysed by employing relevant descriptive and inferential tools from Statistical Package forthe Social Sciences. Even though this study found work related factors and new rank as predisposing conditions for victimization, police officers were found to be more susceptible to victimization due to going out atnight alone, staying out at nights generally and indulgence in alcoholism. While living in descriptively, ‘bad area’ and crime prone areas were potent factors to police officers being victimised, carrying firearms never saved them from attacks. Interestingly, police officers with 1-5 years of experience who are married have greater victimization experience than those who never married, across all police stations.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (115-128 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Africa Development and Resources Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ADRRI Journal of Arts and Social Sciences
- Relation
- Magadla, A. F. and Obioha, E. E.(2021). Factors Associated with Victimization of Police Officers in Mthatha, South Africa. ADRRI Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, Ghana: Vol. 18, No.2 (6), Pp.115-128, E-ISSN: 2343-6891, 30thSeptember,2021.
- Relation
- ADRRI Journal of Arts and Social Sciences volume 18 number 2(6) p.115 09 2021 2343-6891
- Rights
- © 2021 Author(s) .
- Rights
- Africa Development and Resources Research Institute
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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