Property crime victims' decision to notify the police: Social, cognitive, and affective determinants

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-186

  Greenberg, Martin S ^a   Beach, Scott R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community survey; Crime victims; Decision making; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICE; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; VICTIM; ECONOMICS; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEFT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COGNITION; CRIME VICTIMS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLICE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THEFT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942577718     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAHU.0000022321.19983.ea     Document Type: Article

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