This paper examines the issue of job satisfaction in the context of the Turkish National Police (TNP). It brings a comparative view to the factors affecting the level of job satisfaction among police personnel. In addition, this study is the first attempt to assess the level of job satisfaction among the members of the TNP. The validity of the factors, which were found to be effective in determining police officers' job satisfaction in the US and that of employees of other countries' law enforcement agencies, were tested on a nationally organized, centralized police department. Using survey data collected in Turkey during the summer of 2005, we employed multivariate statistics (OLS) and multilevel modeling techniques (HLM) in our analyses to address (a) the level of job satisfaction among the members of the TNP in comparison to their US counterparts and (b) the effects of demographic, jurisdictional, and macro/micro-level work environment factors on the officers' level of job satisfaction. The results supported some of the earlier findings, but also provided different outcomes from the existing body of related literature. In conclusion, we suggest and discuss several policy implications for the future of the TNP and for the study of police management in general terms.
This study aims to answer two major research questions: (a) What are the characteristics of the juvenile homicide offenders (JHOs) and their offenses in Turkey? (b) How do different risk factors vary across the JHOs and other violent and nonviolent juvenile offenders? The data set was derived from the court records of a group of adjudicated youth (n = 546) in Turkey. These records were coded to include information on both the offense characteristics of the homicides committed by juveniles (i.e., motivation, weapon of choice, victims' characteristics, etc.) and the individual and family-level risk factors available in JHOs and two other delinquent groups. Our findings indicated that most of the homicide cases committed by juveniles were motivated by a fight/argument and did not involve any criminal premeditation. The victims were mostly strangers and close in age to the offenders. JHOs were significantly different from other juvenile offenders in a number of aspects, such as age, number of siblings, effectiveness of intrafamilial communication,
To implement effective diversion programs and determine for a well-suited intervention strategy, ascertaining who, among the adjudicated youth, is more likely to involve in multiple offending, rather than desisting after an initial delinquent behavior, is of great significance. The overall objective of this study, therefore, is to contribute to the existing knowledge on assessing the risks for multiple offending during juvenile adjudication processes. In this regard, this study examined the predicting powers of several individual-level and family-level risk factors on multiple offending during adolescence, based on a data set derived from court-ordered social examination reports (SERs) on 400 adjudicated youth in Turkey. Two binomial regression models were implemented to test the predictor values of various risk factors from these two domains. Results indicated the following as significant predictors of multiple offending among the subjects: younger age of onset in delinquency, dropping out of school, having delinquent/drug abusing (risky) friends, being not able to share problems with the family, increased number of siblings, and having a domestically migrated family. Conclusively, these findings were compared with the existing literature, and the policy implications and recommendations for future research were discussed.
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