RT Article
T1 Context Matters: Violence Against Women and Reporting to Police in Rural, Suburban and Urban Areas
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 38
IS 1
SP 141
OP 159
A1 Rennison, Callie Marie
A2 Dragiewicz, Molly
A2 DeKeseredy, Walter S. 1959-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764200012
AB Despite plentiful efforts to identify perpetrator, victim, and incident characteristics correlated with reporting violence against women to police, few studies have addressed the contexts that shape such reporting. Even fewer have examined variations in these contexts across geographic areas. Drawing upon National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 through 2009, this paper uses conjunctive analysis of case configurations to identify and investigate the dominant situational contexts of reporting of violence against women to police across rural, suburban, and urban areas. Our findings show that context matters and the importance of incident, perpetrator, and victim characteristics vary across geographic areas.
K1 Suburban
K1 Urban
K1 Rural
K1 Police reporting
K1 violence against women
DO 10.1007/s12103-012-9164-4