RT Article
T1 Crime Discounting of Violent Victimization: The Role of Crime Type and Incident-Level Correlates
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 1
SP 182
OP 205
A1 Muniz, Caitlyn N.
A2 Powers, Ráchael A.
A2 Bleeker, Kacy
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882523970
AB Many crime victims do not report their victimization and rates of reporting are disparate across crime types. While research has established victims are least likely to report sexual assault, less known is whether the crime discounting process affects reporting rates and whether this process differs by crime type. This paper thus examines reporting for robbery, sexual assault, and physical assault incidents, particularly exploring victims who indicated their incident was ?not a crime.? Using the National Crime Victimization Survey (n = 15,012) and a series of logistic regressions, this study found that, holding a number of incident-level correlates constant, crime type was the most salient predictor of reporting to police and nonreporting because the incident was ?not a crime.?
K1 Assault
K1 crime discounting
K1 Physical Assault
K1 Reporting
K1 Robbery
K1 Sexual Assault
K1 Violence
DO 10.1177/00111287221077636