A Time Series Analysis of Police Reporting Behavior of Gender and Victim/Offender Relationship-Specific Crimes, NCVS 1994-2014.

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Abstract

In the past two decades, policy makers and practitioners alike have made great strides in acknowledging that, like stranger-perpetrated violence, victimizations perpetrated by known offenders should not receive differential treatment by law enforcement or court actors. However, while many studies have examined the characteristics that affect police reporting behavior by victims, very few have examined the trends in this behavior within more homogenous crime typologies. Using the first Violence Against Women Act in 1994 as the baseline treatment, this paper uses ARIMA time series analysis to separately model the percentage of crimes reported to police by male and female victims of known and stranger-perpetrated rapes, robberies, and assaults through 2014. Implications for policy are discussed.

Authors

• Ronet Bachman, University of Delaware

• Patricia Becker, University of Delaware

• Ashley Mancik, University of Delaware

• Brandie Pugh, University of Delaware