The Influence of Citizen Interaction With the Police on Crime-reporting Behavior: Its Manifestations Among University Students
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
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, 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).
Authors: Avdi S. Avdija, Dennis Giever
Institutions: Indiana State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2278172172