Crime Incidents and Victim Demographics: An Examination of Reporting Behaviours
| Published date | 01 April 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/25166069241245774 |
| Author | Jayden Varline M.S. |
| Date | 01 April 2024 |
Crime Incidents and
Victim Demographics:
An Examination of
Reporting Behaviours
Jayden Varline, M.S.1
Abstract
The present study used data from the National Crime Victimization Survey
from 1994 to 2020 to examine reporting behaviours of respondents. The study
aimed to identify if the presence of a weapon, and an offender being a stranger,
impacted whether a victim reports the crime to law enforcement. Demographic
variables (e.g., sex, age and income) and crime incident-related variables (e.g.,
relationship to the offender, distance from home, violent crime and the number
of crime incidents) were used to examine the effect on reporting behaviour.
Two binary logit models were run and found that the presence of a weapon,
the offender being a stranger, victims who are female, a closer distance to the
respondent’s home, violent crime and fewer number of crime incidents in the
last year were associated with higher odds of reporting. The odds of reporting
a crime were over two times larger when the offender had a weapon, providing
support for weapons continuing to impact reporting behaviour. An interaction
effect was run and suggests that the year of victimization does not impact the
relationship between weapons and reporting behaviour.
Keywords
Victimization, reporting behaviour, criminology
Introduction
Why a victim of a crime decides to report a crime is not well known in literature.
Most cities in the United States use data from their local jurisdictions to assess
Original Article
Journal of Victimology
and Victim Justice
7(1) 19–33, 2024
2024 National Law
University Delhi
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1The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Corresponding author:
Jayden Varline, M.S., The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2400 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI
53211 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
E-mail: jaydenvarline@gmail.com
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