Social and Emotional Determinants of Victim Crime Reporting

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ID11325355
AutoresMartin S Greenberg (autor correspondente), Chauncey E Wilson, Chauncey Wilson, R Barry Ruback, Michael K Mills
Ano1979
Volume42
Fascículo4
Páginas364
Data de publicação1979-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3033806
PMID538460
OpenAlexW2329132394
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas6

This study investigated the effect of victims' level of anger and type of bystander advice on theft victims' decision to call the police. Subjects were led to believe that they were victims of an $11 theft which occurred on the premises of an industrial research organization. Two independent variables were manipulated in a 3 x 3 factorial design: (a) bystander advice (advised action, advised no action, no advice) and (b) victim anger (high anger, low anger, no anger). Since a manipulation check revealed that victim anger was not successfully manipulated, victims' level of self-reported anger was used in the analyses. Two main effects were found. In comparison with the no-advice condition, the advice to take no action decreased subjects' willingness to report the incident whereas the advice to take action did not significantly increase reporting. Victims' level of self-reported anger was positively related to their willingness to report the theft. Separate analyses by sex showed that anger affected reporting by females but not by males. It was suggested that victim reporting may be governed more by a hot decision process than by a cold process involving r ational calculation of costs and benefits

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