TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Prior Police Contact and Subsequent Victim Reporting: Results from the NCVS
JO  - Justice quarterly
A1  - McDowall, David
A1  - Lynch, James P.
A1  - Pogarsky, Greg
A1  - Xie, Min
SP  - 481
EP  - 501
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0741-8825
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418820600985339
ID  - ref1
ER  -