英文摘要 |
In recent years, many new immigrants have moved in, becoming a large subgroup in Taiwan. While a bulk of research has conducted in the western societies to explore the levels of perceptions toward the police among immigrants over the past decades, how immigrants view the Taiwanese police has been largely overlooked. In order to fill this gap, this study aims to explore the effects on the new immigrants’ perceptions toward the police in Taiwan.Based on the extant literature, those possible theoretical models including acculturation, procedural justice, bifocal lenses, and contact experience have been integrated as a research framework to examine if those models and their factors produce significant impact on new immigrants’ perceptions of the police in Taiwan. The research setting covers some cities in the northern part of Taiwan island. Four major immigrant groups coming from Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand have been employed as the research population. Using convenient and snow-ball sampling methods, 644 questionnaires have been distributed by the researcher during the period from January to March in 2019. A total of 579 completed questionnaires have been collected in final, suggesting the response rate is 90%.The findings from a series of multivariate analysis show that, first of all, the nationality and marital status had a significant effect on perceptions of the police. Compared to the Philippines, respondents from Indonesia and Thailand rated Taiwanese police more favorably. The married and divorced were more satisfied with police than single. In addition, the cluster analysis has been used to identify four appropriate subgroups and 35.4% of respondents reported that they belong to Taiwanese cluster, which means the more they get involved in Taiwanese cultures, the more positive attitudes toward Taiwan police are reported. Moreover, this study found that procedural justice seems to be a universal factor which is a robust factor affecting perceptions of the police across four immigrant groups. Regardless of the new immigrants’ nationality or the contact experience with the police, those respondents are quite concerning whether they have treated fairly and legitimately by police while encountering. Furthermore, although new immigrants carried the imagination of police from home country, this stereotype was insignificant while evaluating Taiwanese police. Finally, acculturation was a crucial mechanism linking procedural justice to perceptions of the police. Stated differently, if new immigrants feel that they are treated fairly by Taiwan police, they will strengthen the levels of Taiwan cultural identification, which in turn promotes the good feelings to the police.According to the findings, eight concrete policy implications have been highlighted in final: (a) Encouraging new immigrants to participate in Taiwanese cultures. (b) Assisting new immigrants to maintain their cultures of home country. (c) The police officers and agencies must follow the principle of procedural justice. (d) Establishing a good police-citizen interaction should go hand in hand with procedural justice. (e) Incorporating multicultural courses into police education and training classes. (f) Constituting the perfect legal system for an interpreter and training new immigrants as interpreters. (g) Recruiting bilingual police and training new immigrants’ generation to serve police job in Taiwan. (h) Creating a society that multiculturalism is tolerated and reducing prejudice and discrimination against new immigrants. |