@article{ref1,
title="Property crime victims' decision to notify the police: social, cognitive, and affective determinants",
journal="Law and human behavior",
year="2004",
author="Greenberg, Martin S. and Beach, Scott R.",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="177-186",
abstract="Previous research suggests that 3 general processes underlie the decision of property crime victims to notify the police: One that is cognitively driven by reward/cost considerations, one that is affectively driven, and another that is socially driven. This study is the first to employ a community sample of crime victims to compare the 3 processes within a single study. Computer-assisted interviews were conducted with 422 property crime victims (n = 129 burglary, n = 293 theft) located via a random digit dialing procedure. Logistic regression analyses showed that each process independently accounted for a significant amount of the variance in victim reporting, and that there were no interactions among the three processes in predicting reporting. Of the 3 processes, social influence was the best predictor of reporting. Analysis of the affect-driven process showed that reporting was primarily a function of the level of fear rather than anger or the level of generalized arousal upon discovering the crime.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0147-7307",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}