Police notification and police response behaviors to physical assault victims: a focus on geographic context
| Author(s) | Mahoney, Margaret J. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2018-05-02T11:53:05Z | |
| Date Available | 2018-05-02T11:53:05Z | |
| Publication Date | 2017 | |
| SWORD Update | 2017-09-06T19:35:08Z | |
| Abstract | National level data indicates that while crime victims do report crime to the police, the number of crime victimizations that are reported is less than half (Baumer & Lauritsen, 2010). Additionally, scholarship on rural criminology has been gaining ground, but rural crime in general ranks among the least studied problems in criminology throughout the twentieth century (Donnermeyer, 2012). This research connects the literature of victimization reporting, police response behavior, and rural criminology, in an analysis to understand rural and urban differences in the police notification behavior of physical assault victims and police response behavior to physical assaults. Using the incident-level extract file of the NCVS for 1992-2012 this research has an n-size of 23,729. There are two main dependent outcomes: police notification of physical assault and police response behaviors to physical assault. These outcomes are measured through six dependent variables to examine the research questions (1) Does geography have an effect on the likelihood that victims of assault will notify the police? (2) Does geography have an effect on police response behaviors in the form of time to arrive on the scene and decision to arrest? Findings indicate differences between urban and rural areas in the probability of physical assault notification and the police response behaviors. These findings are understood through Black’s (1974, 1976) theory of the mobilization of law. Limitations and avenues for further research are discussed. | en_US |
| Advisor | Bachman, Ronet | |
| Degree | Ph.D. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | |
| Unique Identifier | 1033602032 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/23132 | |
| Language | en | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| URI | https://search.proquest.com/docview/1975367026?accountid=10457 | |
| Keywords | Social sciences | en_US |
| Keywords | Physical assault victims | en_US |
| Keywords | Rural criminology | en_US |
| Title | Police notification and police response behaviors to physical assault victims: a focus on geographic context | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |