Reporting Crime to the Police

Tarling, Roger; Morris, Katie

doi:10.1093/bjc/azq011

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“…focus in other studies of decisions not to report crimes, which have mostly been quantitative (Berg, Finkelhor, Goudrian 2013;Kärrinen and Sirén 2011;Tarling and Morris 2010). This suggests that subtle issues, such as those we highlight, may be difficult to capture in quantitative studies.…”

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“…1 Crime victims who do not report criminal incidents to the police often explain that they consider the crime to be minor (Tarling and Morris 2010) or that they do not believe the police can do anything about it (The Swedish Council of Crime Prevention 2016; see also Finkelhor and Wolak 2003;Skogan 1984;Burcar 2013). …”

Section: Research On Reporting Crimes To the Policementioning

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Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Åkerström

Rypi²,

Alm

2018

Nordic Social Work Research

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Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part, why these young people do not report crimes to the police when they are the victims of crimes. This article reports accounts from young crime victims who have an immigrant background. The young men who were interviewed mainly portrayed their decisions not to notify the police in the context of masculinity discourse rather than using a discourse of discrimination, even though the interviewers asked specifically about whether discrimination or trust in the police influenced their decision. We argue that these young men's accounts reflect their preferred self-presentations, since a dicriminination discourse may be tied to a victim identity that is incompatible with hegemonic masculinity.

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Section: Research On Reporting Crimes To the Policementioning

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Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Åkerström

Rypi²,

Alm

2018

Nordic Social Work Research

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“…In general, victimization incidents involving a greater level of crime severity are more likely to be reported to the police (Gottfredson & Gottfredson, 1988;Gottfredson & Hindelang, 1979;Skogan, 1984). This finding has been identified in a diverse range of samples, including data from Taiwan (Kuo, Cuvelier, Sheu, & Chang, 2002), Great Britain (Tarling & Morris, 2010), and international crime surveys (Goudriaan, Lynch, & Nieuwbeerta, 2004). More specifically, axes of crime severity such as assailant weapon use (Felson & Pare, 2005), whether injuries were sustained (Ammar, Orloff, Dutton, Aguilar-Hass, 2005;Orloff, Dutton, Haas, & Ammar, 2003;Rennison, 2007), and whether multiple victims were involved (Lizotte, 1985) have all been found to increase the odds of a police report.…”

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Predictors of Police Reporting Among Hispanic Immigrant Victims of Violence

2014

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The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of police reporting among Hispanic immigrant victims of violence. A sample of 127 Hispanic immigrants was generated through a chain-referral procedure in the city of Hempstead, New York. Participants were asked about their most recent victimization experiences, and detailed information was collected on up to three incidents. The analyses were based on a total of 214 separate victimization incidents, one third of which were reported to the police. Logistic regression analyses indicated that serious injury, multiple-victim incidents, and perceptions of discrimination increase the odds of a police report. Moreover, incidents involving a Black primary assailant were less likely to be reported to the police than incidents involving an assailant perceived to be of Hispanic origin. Supplementary analyses suggested that this latter relationship may be contingent upon the type of crime and the victim’s relationship with the assailant. At the policy level, these findings call into question assumptions about very recent immigrants being too socially isolated and distrustful of law enforcement to sustain robust reporting levels, as well as pointing to encouraging possibilities for productive engagement between police and Hispanic immigrant populations.

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“…In their analysis of crimes being reported to the police between 1973 and 2005, Baumer & Lauritsen (2010) found that the United States had experienced modest increases over the last thirty years, although only 40% of non-fatal violent incidents and 32% of property crimes were reported. Using victimization data from the British Crime Survey to explore changes in the rate of reporting between 1991 and 2008, Tarling & Morris (2010) discovered that the reporting of incidents had decreased by approximately four percentage points during those…”

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“…After the report by the above authors, the police introduced a new procedure that required all police forces to implement the "prima facie" rule. The aim of this change was to improve the integrity and consistency of the police figures recorded and also to bring about a change in attitude on the part of the police which could make victims more willing to report crimes, knowing that their accounts of what happened were more likely to be accepted (Tarling & Morris, 2010). It was designed to guarantee greater consistency between forces when it comes to recording crime and at the same time to focus more on the victims of the crimes recorded (Home Office, 2011).…”

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The Drop in Crime Rates. A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends

Frutos¹,

García²

2018

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This paper confirms the hypothesis that crime is declining in westerns countries by analysing three representative methods of police registration of crime figures: the French "procedural "method, the "primie facie" method used in England and Wales, and the "dualize" model adopted in Spain. Based on the assumption that crime is a legal-cultural phenomenon, the main characteristics of each model are examined, and the conclusion can be reached that while comparing time series drawn up from annual figures of police recorded crime would be unrealistic, due to the historic peculiarities of each country, it is possible to compare the magnitude and the general trends and developments, as they are independent from data registration methods. The conclusion is that in the three models, it is possible to observe a fall in crime rates on a global level, the continuous emergence of types of crimes as a result of social change, improved practices in police registration and classification of data and, a growing interest among citizens in receiving reliable data.

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Reporting Crime to the Police

Cited by 171 publications

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Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Predictors of Police Reporting Among Hispanic Immigrant Victims of Violence

The Drop in Crime Rates. A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends

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