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Victims & Offenders
An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice
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Victim Willingness to Report Crime to Police: Does Procedural Justice or Outcome Matter Most?

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Matthew M. Morgan & Angela Higginson. (2023) Police and procedural justice: perceptions of young people with mental illness. Policing and Society 33:7, pages 841-860.
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Jim McKee, Barak Ariel & Vincent Harinam. (2023) “Mind the Police Dissatisfaction Gap”: The Effect of Callbacks to Victims of Unsolved Crimes in London. Justice Quarterly 40:5, pages 744-763.
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Jamie L. Flexon, Lin Liu, Richard G. Greenleaf & Nerissa James. (2023) Income and Calling the Police: Examining a Nuanced Relationship Toward Theoretical Refinement. Victims & Offenders 0:0, pages 1-22.
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Yue Yuan, Claudio Vera Sanchez & Clarissa Punla. (2022) Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants. Policing and Society 32:10, pages 1180-1192.
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Md Jahirul Islam & Paul Mazerolle. (2022) Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?. Policing and Society 32:10, pages 1226-1241.
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Murat Haner, Melissa M. Sloan, Justin T. Pickett & Francis T. Cullen. (2022) When Do Americans “See Something, Say Something”? Experimental Evidence on the Willingness to Report Terrorist Activity. Justice Quarterly 39:5, pages 1079-1103.
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Michelle N. Eliasson. (2022) A Qualitative Examination of Swedish Police Officers’ Perceptions of Victim Culpability. Victims & Offenders 0:0, pages 1-19.
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Beth M. Huebner, Theodore S. Lentz & Joseph A. Schafer. (2022) Heard Shots – Call the Police? An Examination of Citizen Responses To Gunfire. Justice Quarterly 39:4, pages 673-696.
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Fei Luo, Marcus Tyler Carey & Yudu Li. (2021) Trust in police: an exploratory study among Hispanic college students. Police Practice and Research 22:7, pages 1679-1693.
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Justin Nix, Tara N. Richards, Gillian M. Pinchevsky & Emily M. Wright. (2021) Are Domestic Incidents Really More Dangerous to Police? Findings from the 2016 National Incident Based Reporting System. Justice Quarterly 38:7, pages 1405-1427.
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Shannon B. Harper, Angela R. Gover & Isabella K. Mages. (2021) Interactions between law enforcement and women of color at high-risk of lethal intimate partner violence: An application of interpersonal justice theory. Criminal Justice Studies 34:3, pages 268-288.
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Roger B Mason, Ndabazinhle Ngobese & Mandusha Maharaj. (2021) Perceptions of service provided by South African police service community service centres. Police Practice and Research 22:3, pages 1259-1276.
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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix & Tara Richards. (2021) Mandatory Sexual Assault Kit Testing Policies and Arrest Trends: A Natural Experiment. Justice Evaluation Journal 4:1, pages 145-162.
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Martine B. Powell & Sonja P. Brubacher. (2020) The origin, experimental basis, and application of the standard interview method: An information‐gathering framework. Australian Psychologist 55:6, pages 645-659.
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Mangai Natarajan & Dhanya Babu. (2020) Women police stations: have they fulfilled their promise?. Police Practice and Research 21:5, pages 442-458.
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Kristina Murphy, Natasha S. Madon & Adrian Cherney. (2020) Reporting threats of terrorism: stigmatisation, procedural justice and policing Muslims in Australia. Policing and Society 30:4, pages 361-377.
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Natasha Mulvihill, Geetanjali Gangoli, Aisha K. Gill & Marianne Hester. (2019) The experience of interactional justice for victims of ‘honour’-based violence and abuse reporting to the police in England and Wales. Policing and Society 29:6, pages 640-656.
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Kristina Murphy, Adrian Cherney & Marcus Teston. (2019) Promoting Muslims’ Willingness to Report Terror Threats to Police: Testing Competing Theories of Procedural Justice. Justice Quarterly 36:4, pages 594-619.
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Gail Mason & Rachael Stanic. (2019) Reporting and recording bias crime in New South Wales. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 31:2, pages 164-180.
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Cassandra Cross. (2018) Victims’ motivations for reporting to the ‘fraud justice network’. Police Practice and Research 19:6, pages 550-564.
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Rick Sarre & Tim Prenzler. (2018) Ten key developments in modern policing: an Australian perspective. Police Practice and Research 19:1, pages 3-16.
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Rick Sarre. (2017) How I Would Spend $100 Million to Reduce Crime. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 28:3, pages 339-354.
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Nathalie-Sharon N. Koster, Karlijn F. Kuijpers, Maarten J. J. Kunst & Joanne P. Van der Leun. (2016) Crime Victims’ Perceptions of Police Behavior, Legitimacy, and Cooperation: A Review of the Literature. Victims & Offenders 11:3, pages 392-435.
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Jeanna M. Mastrocinque & David McDowall. (2016) Does Recent Victimization Impact Confidence in the Criminal Justice System?. Victims & Offenders 11:3, pages 482-499.
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Sharyn Graham Davies, Adrianus Meliala & John Buttle. (2016) Gangnam Style versus Eye of the Tiger: people, police and procedural justice in Indonesia. Policing and Society 26:4, pages 453-474.
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Alan Beckley. (2014) Organisational justice: is the police service ready for it?. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism 9:2, pages 176-190.
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Ben Clark, Barak Ariel & Vincent Harinam. (2022) “How Should the Police Let Victims Down?” The Impact of Reassurance Call-Backs by Local Police Officers to Victims of Vehicle and Cycle Crimes: A Block Randomized Controlled Trial. Police Quarterly 26:3, pages 355-378.
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Kristina Murphy. (2023) Encouraging minority trust and compliance with police in a procedural justice experiment: How identity and situational context matter. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 26:4, pages 816-832.
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Kayleigh A. Stanek, Kathleen A. Fox, Cody W. Telep & Rick Trinkner. (2022) Who Can You Trust? The Impact of Procedural Justice, Trust, and Police Officer Sex on Women's Sexual Assault Victimization Reporting Likelihood. Violence Against Women 29:5, pages 860-881.
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Katrin Hohl, Kelly Johnson & Sarah Molisso. (2022) A Procedural Justice Theory Approach to Police Engagement with Victim-Survivors of Rape and Sexual Assault: Initial Findings of the ‘Project Bluestone’ Pilot Study. International Criminology 2:3, pages 253-261.
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Sheila R Maxwell & Christopher D Maxwell. (2020) Ecology and Criminology? Applying the tenets of procedural justice to environmental regulations. Criminology & Criminal Justice 22:2, pages 199-216.
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Andrew J. Thompson & Theodore Wilson. (2021) Procedural (In)Justice as Inclusivity and Marginalization: Evidence from a Longitudinal Sample of Mexican-American Adolescents. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 59:1, pages 44-81.
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P. Jeffrey Brantingham & Craig D. Uchida. (2021) Public cooperation and the police: Do calls-for-service increase after homicides?. Journal of Criminal Justice 73, pages 101785.
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Matthew Morgan. (2021) Police Responses to Persons with Mental Illness: The Policy and Procedures Manual of One Australian Police Agency and ‘Procedural Justice Policy’. Social Sciences 10:2, pages 42.
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