RT Article
T1 Rape Co-occurrence: Do Additional Crimes Affect Victim Reporting and Police Clearance of Rape?
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 24
IS 2
SP 205
OP 226
A1 Addington, Lynn A.
A2 Rennison, Callie Marie
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277864
AB Despite the increased research attention given to rape and violence against women, little is known about rape co-occurrence, or rape incidents that involve another crime. Although previous research has found certain incident characteristics increase the likelihood that a victim reports her rape to police and that the offender is arrested and prosecuted, the relationship between co-occurrence and these responses is unknown. Given this gap in the literature, the main goal of the present research is to provide an initial understanding of rape co-occurrence and its effect on victim reporting and police clearance. To explore these issues, this study uses two national data sources that collect the requisite incident-level information: the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reporting Program’s National Incident-Based Reporting System. Few rapes are found to co-occur with other crimes. When rapes do occur with other crimes, though, they are more likely than solo-occurring rapes to involve weapons, strangers, additional injury to the victim, and multiple offenders. Rapes that co-occur also are more likely to be reported to police and cleared by police than rapes that occur with no other crimes.
K1 Crime Statistics
K1 Measurement
K1 Complementarity
K1 Rape
K1 Victimization
DO 10.1007/s10940-008-9043-9