1. Reasons for reporting and not reporting domestic violence
The professional journal Criminology published an analysis that was done on reasons for reporting and not reporting domestic violence to the police in August of 2002. ... Throughout the analysis authors, Felson, Messner, Hoskin, and Deane attempt to prove various hypotheses dealing with the role of victim-offender relationship and gender. ... Felson, Messner, Hoskin, and Deane use cost and incentives as the basis for measuring calling patterns in this analysis. ... This shows that victims are more likely to feel that incidents occurring with strangers are more trivial than those incidents ...
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