The code of the street and cooperation with the police: Do codes of violence, procedural injustice, and police ineffectiveness discourage reporting violent victimization to the police?

Hyounggon Kwak, Rick Dierenfeldt and Susan McNeeley

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2019, vol. 60, issue C, 25-34

Abstract: Few quantitative studies have tested Anderson's (1999) suggestion that reliance on codes of violence and mistrust in the police reduce the likelihood of cooperating with the police after being victimized. We examine whether perceived codes of violence, perceived police effectiveness, and perceived procedural injustice influence the decision to report crime to the police. We also examine whether these relationships interact with individual or situational characteristics.

Keywords: Code of the street; Crime reporting; Police effectiveness; Procedural justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.11.001

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