- Title
- Consequences of citizens’ non-reporting of crime to the Police: A survey of Mthatha Policing Precinct, South Africa
- Description
- Whilst citizens are at liberty to decide whether or not to report a crime to the police, nonreporting of crime to the police may come with a heavy price. This study evaluates the consequences of non-reporting of crime to the police in South Africa’s Mthatha policing area. It comes against a backdrop of a rise in criminal activities in South Africa. A survey was conducted among households in selected residential areas of Mthatha, from where 120 respondents were selected through stratified random sampling technique. Data analysis was done using SPSS to reveal both descriptive and inferential statistics. From the analysis, continued engagement in criminal activities by perpetrators, resulting in absence of investigations was found to be the major impact of non-reporting of crime to the police. Findings also revealed that the victims bear the most implications of non-reporting of crime. Inability to identify crime hot spots, misallocation of policing resources and inability to determine crime trends and tendencies were also viewed as significant impacts of non-reporting of crime to the police. A factor analysis revealed officials’ inability to determine trends and tendencies that could inform policing strategies as the most significant component.
- Date
- 2021-10
- Subject
- Citizen crime reporting Victims of crimes surveys Article
- Type
- text, article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/7962
- Identifier
- vital:57343
- Identifier
- ("https://iipccl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/035.pdf")
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (453-463 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- IIPCCL Publishing
- Language
- English
- Relation
- European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
- Relation
- Mbewu, I., Obioha, E., and Mugari, I. (2021, October). Consequences of citizens’ non-reporting of crime to the Police: A survey of Mthatha Policing Precinct, South Africa. European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences, 5(3), 453-463. Retrieved from https://iipccl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Pages-from-035-1.pdf
- Relation
- European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences volume 5 number 3 p.453 Oct 2021 2519-1284
- Rights
- © 2021 Author(s) ., European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences, This is an open access article under the CC BY 3.0 license.
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