Professional Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Case Study – Police Corruption

Abstract

* The authors would like to thank Mike Levi (Cardiff), Klaus Von Lampe (Berlin), Marianne L. Wade (Freiburg) and Vladimir Obradović (Zagreb) as well as to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this article. ** LL.M., Almir Maljević, Senior lecturer in Criminal Law; MA Darko Datzer, Senior lecturer in Methodology and Sociology; MA Elmedin Muratbegović, Senior lecturer in Crime Prevention; MA Muhamed Budimlić, Senior lecturer in Criminology. 1) Bosnia and Herzegovina, with its 2.9 CPI score (10 meaning highly clean and 0 meaning highly corrupt) is ranked 88th on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI CPI). See <www.transparency.org>. 2) For more detailed insight in literature which deals with integrity of police officers, as well as research on police corruption see: A.

Management challenges in law enforcement: the case of police misconduct and crime

“…Unfortunately, examples illustrate that criminal acts are intentionally carried out by police officers on duty. Police crime does not only occur in countries such as Mexico (Davis, 2007) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Maljevic et al, 2008). It is found in the UK (Porter and Warrender, 2009), USA (Klockars et al, 2006), Australia (OPI, 2008) and Norway (see this study) as well.…”

“…The results of studies by Ivkovic and Shelley (2005) and Maljevic et al (2008) indicate that the code of silence provides stronger protection for the acceptance of gratuities and use of excessive force than for opportunistic thefts and shakedowns.…”

White-Collar Crime and Police Crime: Rotten Apples or Rotten Barrels?

“…Police crime does not only occur in countries such as Mexico (Davis, 2007) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Maljevic et al, 2008). It is found in the UK (Porter and Warrender, 2009), USA (Klockars et al, 2006), Australia (OPI, 2008) and Norway (Gottschalk, 2010) as wellalthough on a smaller scale.…”