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Reporting to the police in western nations: A theoretical analysis of the effects of social context

Goudriaan, Heike, Lynch, James P., Nieuwbeerta, Paul·2004·Justice Quarterly
DOI 10.1080/07418820400096041
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One of the most consistent findings in empirical studies using victimization data is that the decision to report victimization to the police is determined in large part by the seriousness of the crime. The police will be notified more often of crimes that involve more serious injury or greater monetary loss. These findings, however, may be due to the fact that most studies on reporting have been conducted using victimization surveys that devote a great deal of attention to the crime event and victim characteristics and much less to the social context of that event. As a result, influences on reporting operating at the neighborhood, jurisdiction, or nation level have been neglected. The aim of this paper is to bring social context into the discourse on reporting to the police by presenting a much more inclusive model of crime reporting. In addition, the influence of four aspects of macro-level social context on reporting are tested—the perceived competence of the police, institutionalization of insurance business, norm of conformity, and level of individualism—by merging incident-level data from the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) for 16 Western industrialized countries with nation-level data from various sources. Hierarchical logistic modeling is used to analyze the nested data. The perceived competence of the police has a positive effect on whether property crimes are reported.

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Authors
Goudriaan, H., Lynch, J. P., & Nieuwbeerta, P.
Affiliations
  • Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NL)
  • American University (US)
Corresponding author
Goudriaan, Heike
ORCID
Venue
Justice Quarterly
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2004-12-01
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
933-969
ISSN
  • 0741-8825 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-9109
DOI
10.1080/07418820400096041
OpenAlex
W2156716029
Cited by
178
References
64
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Justice Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
crime reporting, police reporting, social environment, individualism, property crime, crime severity, victimization, International Crime Victims Survey, Western industrialized countries

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