Research Catalog

Title

After the crime : victim decision making / Martin S. Greenberg and R. Barry Ruback.

Author

Greenberg, Martin S.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ruback, R. Barry, 1950-

Description

xvi, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 9.

Subject

• Victims of crimes > Psychology
• Crime
• Decision making
• Life change events
• Crime
• Decision Making
• Jurisprudence
• Life Change Events
• Research Design
• crimes (events)
• decision making
• Life change events
• Decision making
• Victims of crimes > Psychology
• Viktimologie
• Victimologie
• Besluitvorming
• Slachtoffers
• Misdrijven
• Hulpzoekenden
• Victims of crimes > Decision making
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Victimization as a Social Problem -- Decision Making by Victims -- A Program of Research on Victims' Decisions -- Purposes of the Research Project -- Goals and Outline of the Book -- Ch. 2. An Experimental Approach to Victim Decision Making -- The Experimental Paradigm -- Study 1: Theft Magnitude and Thief's Race and Proximity as Determinants of Crime Reporting -- Summary and Conclusions -- Ch. 3. Experimental Studies on the Role of Social Influence in Victim Decision Making -- Study 2: Social and Emotional Factors in Victim Decision Making -- Study 3: Type of Bystander Advice and Supporting Arguments -- Study 4: Parameters of Bystander Influence: Proximity, Support, and Knowledge of the Theft -- Study 5: Parameters of Bystander Influence: Sex Similarity, Type of Supporting Argument, and Level of Surveillance -- Study 6: The Effect of Fate Similarity on Theft-Victim Decision Making -- Summary and Conclusions -- Ch. 4. Eyewitness Identification by Theft Victims -- Study 7: Effect of a Prior Lineup Identification on a Subsequent Lineup Identification -- Study 8: Effect of Type of Identification Task on Subsequent Lineup Identifications -- Study 9: Same Race and Cross-Race Identifications -- Results Using Data from All Participants -- General Discussion -- Ch. 5. Analyses Across Experimental Studies -- Validity of the Experimental Studies -- Variables Related to Reporting -- Variables Related to Delay in Reporting -- Relationship of Reporting Decision to Participants' Perceptions -- Variables Related to Participants' Recall of the Theft -- Summary and Conclusions -- Ch. 6. Normative Expectations for Calling the Police -- Study of Normative Influence -- Crime Seriousness -- Study 10: Crime Seriousness and Norms for Reporting in Four Countries -- Study 11: Appropriateness of Reporting: Effects of Type of Offender and Sex of Victim -- Study 12: Norms for Reporting among Different Ethnic Groups in the United States -- General Discussion -- Ch 7. Archival Analyses -- Study 13: Calls to the Atlanta Council on Battered Women -- Study 14: Police Records on Reported Thefts and Burglaries -- Study 15: Rape Crisis Center Archives -- General Discussion of the Archival Research -- Ch. 8. Self-Reports: Surveying Crime Victims -- Study 16: Self-Reports of Rape Victims -- Study 17: Interviews with Victims of Burglary, Theft, and Robbery -- Study 18: Survey of Reporter and Nonreporter Victims of Burglary and Theft -- Study 19: Telephone Interviews with Victims of Burglary and Theft -- Study 20: A Longitudinal Study of Rape Victims -- Summary and Conclusions -- Ch. 9. A Model of Crime-Victim Decision Making -- Stage 1: Labeling the Event a Crime -- Stage 2: Determining the Seriousness of the Crime -- Stage 3: Deciding What to Do -- Social Influence and Victim Decision Making -- Summary -- Ch. 10. Summary and Implications of the Research -- Summary of the Research -- Implications of the Research -- Summary -- Appendix: A Lawsuit Against the Researchers -- Description of the Incident -- The Lawsuit -- The Immediate Aftermath of the Filing -- Pretrial Discovery -- The Trial -- The Defendants' Case -- Consequences of the Lawsuit -- Lessons to Be Learned.

ISBN

• 0306441608
• 9780306441608

LCCN

92016942

OCLC

• ocm25873802
• 25873802
• SCSB-1952875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library