Abstract
Despite plentiful efforts to identify perpetrator, victim, and incident characteristics correlated with reporting violence
against women to police, few studies have addressed the contexts that shape such reporting. Even fewer have examined variations
in these contexts across geographic areas. Drawing upon National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 through 2009, this
paper uses conjunctive analysis of case configurations to identify and investigate the dominant situational contexts of reporting
of violence against women to police across rural, suburban, and urban areas. Our findings show that context matters and the
importance of incident, perpetrator, and victim characteristics vary across geographic areas.
against women to police, few studies have addressed the contexts that shape such reporting. Even fewer have examined variations
in these contexts across geographic areas. Drawing upon National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 through 2009, this
paper uses conjunctive analysis of case configurations to identify and investigate the dominant situational contexts of reporting
of violence against women to police across rural, suburban, and urban areas. Our findings show that context matters and the
importance of incident, perpetrator, and victim characteristics vary across geographic areas.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-19
- DOI 10.1007/s12103-012-9164-4
- Authors
- Callie Marie Rennison, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA
- Molly Dragiewicz, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada L1H 7K4
- Walter S. DeKeseredy, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada L1H 7K4
- Journal American Journal of Criminal Justice
- Online ISSN 1936-1351
- Print ISSN 1066-2316