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  • College Student Victims and Reporting Crime to the Police: The Influence of Collective Efficacy

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    C. Hart, Timothy
    Colavito, Violet
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    Hart, Timothy
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Campus crime and college student victimization are important social issues. Despite the existing research in this area, little is known about whether factors that influence police notification among college students are similar to those observed among the general population. Using data from a survey of 160 college students enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the current study assesses the influence of collective efficacy on crime reporting among college student victims, while controlling for relevant victim-, offender-, and incident-level characteristics of a crime. Results from multivariate regression analysis ...
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    Campus crime and college student victimization are important social issues. Despite the existing research in this area, little is known about whether factors that influence police notification among college students are similar to those observed among the general population. Using data from a survey of 160 college students enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the current study assesses the influence of collective efficacy on crime reporting among college student victims, while controlling for relevant victim-, offender-, and incident-level characteristics of a crime. Results from multivariate regression analysis show that only one dimension of collective efficacy (i.e., social control) significantly influences police notification behavior among this college student sample. With the exception of crime severity, other factors that are commonly associated with crime reporting decisions among the general public are not correlated with these students' willingness to report crime to police. Findings are discussed in terms of both campus policies concerning crime reporting as well as theoretical implications.
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    Journal Title
    Western Criminology Review
    Volume
    12
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    https://westerncriminology.org/publications/western_criminology_review/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 Western Criminology Review. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Causes and Prevention of Crime
    Criminology
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53297
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