ANALYSIS OF THE PERCEPTION OF POLICE OFFICERS ABOUT VARIOUS FORMS OF RADICALIZATION AND EXTREMISM IN SLOVENIA AND CROATIA
Keywords:
police, radicalization, perception, Slovenia, CroatiaAbstract
Recently experts and practitioners alike noted the emergence of security challenges arising from radicalisation, often leading to extreme violence. Radicalisation and violent extremism present a security threat also to Mid Europe and Western Balkans countries. In the past few decades, the Western Balkan countries have been viewed as a breeding ground for religious radicals and violent extremism. Nowadays, the police have assumed a crucial role in facilitating a preventive multi-stakeholder approach at the local or regional level, particularly in at risk local settings. The paper presents findings of a study conducted on a sample of 117 students of the Croatian Police College of the Ministry of the Interior and 57 Slovenian police officers. A questionnaire was used to identify police officers' opinion on extent of different forms of extremism/radicalization existing in their countries in general and their opinion on religious extremism/radicalisation in Slovenia and Croatia.
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