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The influence of citizen interaction with the police on crime-reporting behavior: its manifestations among university students
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Abstract "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, po... view more
"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)... view less
Keywords
police; behavior; interaction; communication barrier; information exchange; criminality; citizen
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Free Keywords
media exposure; attitudes toward the police
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 45-61
Journal
Criminology & Social Integration, 18 (2010) 2
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution