Determinants of property crime victims to report to the police in Taiwan

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to examine the determinants that influence property crime victim reporting behavior using data collected from the 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey in Taiwan. By using a multi-stratified sampling procedure, data on 18,046 persons 12 years or older were collected through telephone interviews. We analyzed the determinants of victim reporting behavior and clarified the reasons for not reporting using five types of property crime À larceny, robbery, motorcycle theft, vehicle theft, and burglary, and constructed models to predict reporting for larceny, robbery, motorcycle theft, and burglary. We found that a very high percentage of vehicle theft was reported, approximately 94%, while larceny had the lowest reporting rate at 19.14%. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that crime incident variables were the major influences on reporting behavior for larceny, robbery, motorcycle theft, and burglary. Personal variables had a significant impact only on both larceny and robbery. Finally, environmental variables only affected motorcycle theft. In addition, the main reason for not reporting was 'minor crime, minor loss, or loss of property having been recovered,' namely, victims' subjective and objective perceptions of the level of incident severity were the dominant determinant of property victim reporting behavior.

Offender and state compensation for victims of crime

“…The offender may still have the stolen property or the proceeds of its sale to return, but even these apparently straightforward possibilities (and I leave aside any complicating factors) do not equate to the full restoration of the victim’s original position. Victims of property offences generally value criminal justice or insurance services that recompense material losses, and for that reason are incentivized to report them (Robert et al, 2010; Sheu and Chiu, 2012). However, although stolen goods may be returned whole, the victim temporarily lost the use of them, a loss that may be accentuated by the distress that accompanies the possibly permanent loss of a valued object.…”

A Case Study of Non-Violent Property Crime Victimisation in a South African Urban Residential Neighbourhood: Exploring the Excessive Use of Force and Destruction Caused by Burglars to Gain Entry to Victims’ Properties

“…Although it would seem that victims of a violent crime would suffer more, both physically and mentally, than would a victim of a non-violent crime, evidence suggests that victims of some non-violent crimes do suffer. Sheu and Chiu (2012) concur that not only can property crime threaten the social order, but it also affects personal safety and wealth. Burglary victimisation, for example, can cause considerable fear among households and is one of the major concerns among the public (Markowitz, Bellair, Liska, and Liu 2001;Grabosky 1995).…”

“…Non-violent property crime perpetrated in urban residential neighbourhoods in South Africa remains alarmingly high and by far outnumbers other crime categories. Property crime is acknowledged as the major type of crime worldwide (Sheu and Chiu 2012;Mustaine and Tewksbury 1998;Fox and Farrington 2012;Bond and Hajjar 2013). The most predominant property crimes affecting South African households, as published in the South African Police Service (SAPS) Annual Crime Statistics for 2019/2020 (South Africa 2020a), 2018/2019 (South Africa 2019a) and 2017(South Africa 2018, are burglaries at residential premises (205 959; 220 865; 228 094), theft of motor vehicles and motorcycles (46 921; 48 324; 50 663), and theft out of or from motor vehicles (118 213; 125 076; 129 174) respectively.…”

Cooperating with the State: Evidence from Survey Experiments on Policing

“… 1 The focus on advanced industrialized countries also extends to most observational studies on police reporting. For exceptions, see Birkbeck et al (1993) comparing the U.S. and Venezuela, Bennett and Weigand (1994) on Belize, Zhang et al 2007 on China, Tankebe (2009) on Ghana, Sheu and Chiu (2012) on Taiwan, Kochel et al (2013) on Trinidad and Tobago, and Sidebottom (2015) on Malawi. …”