The influence of citizen interaction with the police on crime-reporting behavior: its manifestations among university students

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"Citizen's crime-reporting is generally low, with a number of factors affecting its prevalence and incidence. Research suggests that there is an interrelationship between the type of contacts citizens have with the police (e.g., citizen-initiated or police-initiated), attitudes toward the police, police behavior, and crime-reporting behavior. To determine whether citizen interactions with the police infl uence crime-reporting behavior and attitudes toward the police, this study tested four research hypotheses. The fi ndings of this study suggest that predictors such as citizen-initiated contacts, police-initiated contacts, frequency of those contacts, and exposure to media about police misconduct cannot be used as a group but rather individually to predict all three different levels of crimereporting behavior (i.e., reporting of less serious crimes, reporting of medium-level crimes, and reporting of serious crimes)." (author's abstract)

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 45-61
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Criminology & Social Integration, 18(2)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie ; Kriminalität ; Bürger ; Informationsaustausch ; Polizei ; Interaktion ; Kommunikationsbarriere ; Verhalten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Avdija, Avdi S. ; Giever, Denis M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-284281
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ