1. Reasons for reporting and not reporting domestic violence
... that Felson et al., believe are important to the decision making process are broken into cost and incentive categories. They focus on one motive for calling (self-protection) and five reasons for not calling (fear of reprisal, trivial matters, privacy, protection of offender and police leniency) (Felson et al., 2002). Felson, Messner, Hoskin, and Deane (2002) express their hypothesis by saying ... likely to protect offenders of domestic violence over stranger assaults (p. 10). This is an indicator that victims want to protect those close to them. This could be for a number of reasons in...
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