@article{ref1,
title="Advice to crime victims: effects of crime, victim, and advisor factors",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="1994",
author="Ruback, R. Barry",
volume="21",
number="4",
pages="423-442",
abstract="There is consistent evidence from a variety of sources that crime victims' reporting decisions are influenced by others. The present studies extended this prior work by surveying two statewide stratified random samples (n s = 817 and 832). In Study 1, of 148 respondents who said a family member had been a victim of sexual assault, domestic assault, or robbery, only 65% said that they had advised the victims to report the crime, and women were significantly more likely to advise reporting domestic assault than were men. In both Study 1 and Study 2, respondents were asked about the appropriateness of reporting specific crimes to the police. Based on both within-and between-respondent questions, it appears that reporting advice is contingent on several factors: the seriousness of the offense, the gender of the victim, the victim-offender relationship, and the gender of the respondent.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854894021004003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854894021004003"
}