Same Question, Different Answers: Theorizing Victim and Third Party Decisions to Report Crime to the Police

Galvin, Miranda A.; Safer-Lichtenstein, Aaron

doi:10.1080/07418825.2017.1353123

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“…Victim cooperation with police and police–community interactions more broadly are influenced by individual and community factors. Many studies have adopted a rational choice perspective to explain individual-level decisions to report crimes or cooperate with police investigations (Felson, Messner, Hoskin, & Deane, 2002; Galvin & Safer-Lichtenstein, 2018; Kaiser et al, 2017; O’Neal, 2017). The most parsimonious version of this theory proposes that individuals simply pursue goals in ways that maximize pleasure (benefits) and minimize pain (costs) (Block, 1974; Kaiser et al, 2017; Xie & Lauritsen, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, they indicate that the specifics of a victimization shape how the victim sees the benefits and risks of invoking law enforcement (Gottfredson & Gottfredson, 1988). Specifically, offense seriousness, the victim–offender relationship, prior contact with the criminal justice system, and characteristics of the offense alter how an individual responds to victimization (Galvin & Safer-Lichtenstein, 2018; Kaiser et al, 2017; O’Neal, 2017).…”

Section: Victim Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most research to date has focused on the decision to report a crime to the police (Baumer & Lauritsen, 2010; Galvin & Safer-Lichtenstein, 2018; Rennison, 2007; Xie, 2014; Xie & Lauritsen, 2012); however, there is emerging work on victim cooperation in police investigations and prosecutions—specifically as it relates to sexual assault and intimate partner violence (Kaiser et al, 2017; O’Neal, 2017). These studies suggest that victim and case characteristics have a large influence on the likelihood of cooperation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding Victim Cooperation in Cases of Nonfatal Gun Assaults

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Huebner

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Victims play a central role in criminal case processing, but research suggests many victims do not report crimes to police or cooperate in a police investigation. This study extends the literature on victim cooperation by examining the effect of incident-level variables and neighborhood characteristics on victim cooperation in nonfatal shooting incidents. The sample includes 1,054 nonfatal shooting victims from two Midwestern cities. Results using binary logistic regression suggest that incident and victim characteristics are significantly associated with cooperation, but race conditions the effect of injury severity and motive on cooperation. The willingness to cooperate among Whites is contingent on injury severity while non-White victims do not become markedly more cooperative when confronted with serious injury. Race also moderates the relationship between crime motive and cooperation. This work demonstrates the need to incorporate nonfatal firearm violence into studies of victim cooperation and gun crime more broadly.

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Section: Victim Cooperationmentioning

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Section: Victim Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Victim Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding Victim Cooperation in Cases of Nonfatal Gun Assaults

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Thompson²,

Huebner

et al. 2019

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…In studies based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the National Violence Against Women Survey, scholars have found that incidents are more likely to be reported to the police by third parties when the victim is a woman (Felson & Paré, 2005;Felson, Messner, & Hoskin, 1999;Schnebly, 2008). For instance, using a series of the NCVS data , Galvin and Safer-Lichtenstein (2018) found that the odds of police reporting by third parties was 1.335 times greater for female victimizations compared with male victimizations.…”

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“…Their results indicate that violence involving people in close relationships is less likely to be reported to the police by third parties than violence involving those in distant relationships, such as acquaintances or strangers (Bachman, ; Chen & Ullman, , ; Felson et al., ; cf. Galvin & Safer‐Lichtenstein, ; Gartner & Macmillan, ). For example, the results of analyses of physical and sexual assault incidents showed that the odds of police notification by a third party were an estimated three to five times lower if the offender and victim were intimates or friends rather than strangers (Felson & Paré, ).…”

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Taking sides: Gender and third‐party partisanship in disputes

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We examine the role of a norm protecting women in understanding third‐party partisanship in verbal and violent disputes. Our analyses are based on reports provided by male inmates and men they know who have never been arrested. The results show that third parties are more likely to support female adversaries than male adversaries. The gender effect is stronger when we control for the relational distance between adversaries, which indicates that a privacy norm might inhibit this normative protection. The gender effect is somewhat weaker when we control for the relative physical size of the adversaries, which indicates that a general norm protecting vulnerable people partly explains the gender effect. The strong gender effect that remains, however, demonstrates the importance of the normative protection of women, regardless of relative size, during disputes. The results have implications for research on situational factors in violence and violence against women.

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Effects of theft stereotype on bystander recall, interpretation, and punishment for male and female juvenile thieves

Shapiro

2021

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Summary Sex disparities in the incidence‐arrest statistics for juvenile thieves may stem from preconceived stereotypes impacting bystanders' social‐cognitive processing of a bicycle theft. After reading vignettes describing a bicycle theft, bystanders' reliance on male‐as‐juvenile‐thief stereotypes enhanced their recall of crime and appearance features for the male thief and in their interpretation of his intimidation of a child victim. Bystander sex also affected the results by enhancing appearance recall for the same sex thief. Women interpreted the intentions of the adolescent thieves as stealing, whereas men interpreted the intentions as borrowing. Bystanders endorsed the decision for the father to bring the stolen bicycle to the attention of the police, especially when the victim was a girl, and agreed the police should be involved. The bystanders would be credible witnesses as they could provide the actus reus and mens rea to support a case of larceny‐theft and describe the thief.

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Same Question, Different Answers: Theorizing Victim and Third Party Decisions to Report Crime to the Police

Cited by 19 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding Victim Cooperation in Cases of Nonfatal Gun Assaults

Understanding Victim Cooperation in Cases of Nonfatal Gun Assaults

Taking sides: Gender and third‐party partisanship in disputes

Effects of theft stereotype on bystander recall, interpretation, and punishment for male and female juvenile thieves

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