@article{ref1,
title="Prior Police Contact and Subsequent Victim Reporting: Results from the NCVS",
journal="Justice quarterly",
year="2006",
author="McDowall, David and Lynch, James P. and Pogarsky, Greg and Xie, Min",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="481-501",
abstract="This study investigated the association between victim reporting and the police response to past victimizations with data from the National Crime Victimization Survey from 1998–2000. The findings include: (1) investigatory effort by police when an individual had been victimized in the past increased the likelihood that the individual would report an ensuing victimization to the police; (2) however, this relationship only held when the victim, rather than someone else, reported the prior victimization to the police; (3) whether the police made an arrest after an individual was victimized in the past had no effect on whether the individual reported an ensuing victimization to the police; (4) the probability of victim reporting was unaffected by investigatory effort or whether an arrest was made after a prior victimization of a member of the victim’s household.<p />",
language="",
issn="0741-8825",
doi="10.1080/07418820600985339",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418820600985339"
}