TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Property crime victims' decision to notify the police: social, cognitive, and affective determinants
JO  - Law and human behavior
A1  - Greenberg, Martin S.
A1  - Beach, Scott R.
SP  - 177
EP  - 186
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0147-7307
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -