| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Victimization as a Social Problem | p. 2 |
| Decision Making by Victims | p. 7 |
| A Program of Research on Victims' Decisions | p. 11 |
| Purposes of the Research Project | p. 11 |
| Goals and Outline of the Book | p. 13 |
| An Experimental Approach to Victim Decision Making | p. 17 |
| The Experimental Paradigm | p. 18 |
| Study 1: Theft Magnitude and Thief's Race and Proximity as Determinants of Crime Reporting | p. 21 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 35 |
| Experimental Studies on the Role of Social Influence in Victim Decision Making | p. 37 |
| Study 2: Social and Emotional Factors in Victim Decision Making | p. 38 |
| Study 3: Type of Bystander Advice and Supporting Arguments | p. 45 |
| Study 4: Parameters of Bystander Influence: Proximity, Support, and Knowledge of the Theft | p. 50 |
| Study 5: Parameters of Bystander Influence: Sex Similarity, Type of Supporting Argument, and Level of Surveillance | p. 53 |
| Study 6: The Effect of Fate Similarity on Theft-Victim Decision Making | p. 57 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 63 |
| Eyewitness Identification by Theft Victims | p. 65 |
| Study 7: Effect of a Prior Lineup Identification on a Subsequent Lineup Identification | p. 66 |
| Study 8: Effect of Type of Identification Task on Subsequent Lineup Identifications | p. 69 |
| Study 9: Same Race and Cross-Race Identifications | p. 74 |
| Results Using Data from All Participants | p. 76 |
| General Discussion | p. 77 |
| Analyses Across Experimental Studies | p. 81 |
| Validity of the Experimental Studies | p. 82 |
| Variables Related to Reporting | p. 86 |
| Variables Related to Delay in Reporting | p. 89 |
| Relationship of Reporting Decision to Participants' Perceptions | p. 90 |
| Variables Related to Participants' Recall of the Theft | p. 92 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 99 |
| Normative Expectations for Calling the Police | p. 101 |
| Study of Normative Influence | p. 101 |
| Crime Seriousness | p. 103 |
| Study 10: Crime Seriousness and Norms for Reporting in Four Countries | p. 104 |
| Study 11: Appropriateness of Reporting: Effects of Type of Offender and Sex of Victim | p. 116 |
| Study 12: Norms for Reporting among Different Ethnic Groups in the United States | p. 121 |
| General Discussion | p. 126 |
| Archival Analyses | p. 129 |
| Study 13: Calls to the Atlanta Council on Battered Women | p. 130 |
| Study 14: Police Records on Reported Thefts and Burglaries | p. 131 |
| Study 15: Rape Crisis Center Archives | p. 134 |
| General Discussion of the Archival Research | p. 148 |
| Self-Reports: Surveying Crime Victims | p. 151 |
| Study 16: Self-Reports of Rape Victims | p. 152 |
| Study 17: Interviews with Victims of Burglary, Theft, and Robbery | p. 155 |
| Study 18: Survey of Reporter and Nonreporter Victims of Burglary and Theft | p. 159 |
| Study 19: Telephone Interviews with Victims of Burglary and Theft | p. 163 |
| Study 20: A Longitudinal Study of Rape Victims | p. 171 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 177 |
| A Model of Crime-Victim Decision Making | p. 181 |
| Stage 1: Labeling the Event a Crime | p. 185 |
| Stage 2: Determining the Seriousness of the Crime | p. 187 |
| Stage 3: Deciding What to Do | p. 194 |
| Social Influence and Victim Decision Making | p. 204 |
| Summary | p. 212 |
| Summary and Implications of the Research | p. 215 |
| Summary of the Research | p. 215 |
| Implications of the Research | p. 222 |
| Summary | p. 243 |
| Appendix: A Lawsuit Against the Researchers | p. 245 |
| Description of the Incident | p. 246 |
| The Lawsuit | p. 248 |
| The Immediate Aftermath of the Filing | p. 251 |
| Pretrial Discovery | p. 254 |
| The Trial | p. 255 |
| The Defendants' Case | p. 259 |
| Consequences of the Lawsuit | p. 261 |
| Lessons to Be Learned | p. 262 |
| References | p. 265 |
| Table of Cases | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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