Summary
"It has been consistently documented that much of the property crime in Canada and in the Western world in general is not being brought to the attention of the police. Three approaches were taken in past research to examine the factors contributing to crime reporting behaviour - the economical, psychological, and sociological. While having some success in explaining reporting behaviour from these sole perspectives, the downside o f these projects is the disregard of other possible factors embedded in “competing” frameworks. This project merges these three approaches under the assumption offered by a socio-ecological framework which asserts that characteristics of victims, incidents, and social contexts of neighbourhoods will influence victims’ reporting behaviour. Victims are assumed to form the decision to notify the police of incidents through rational or normative processes."--Page ii.