ac1.2 why different crimes go unreported.

Personal reasons

1. Fear

2. Shame

3. Disinterest

4. Not affected by the crime.

Cultural reasons

1. Lack of knowledge

2. Complexity

3. Lack of media interest

4. Lack of public concern

5. Culture bound crime

In depth of personal reason, fear.

1. Victim scared of reproductions

2. Fear of consequences for family

3. Fear nothing will happen

4. Fear it reporting will make it worse or the perpetrator won’t get convicted.

In depth explanation of personal reason, shame

why might the victim feel shame and not report;

1. Doesn’t want to admit crime due to how it makes them feel or how others will perceive them

2. May not want vulnerability’s discussed

3. 29% of rape victims haven’t told family

4. Blame

5. Unsympathetic responses

6. Gender expectations

In depth personal reasoning of disinterest (reasons to why crimes go unreported)

1. Not bothered

2. Victimless crimes

3. Police uninterest

4. Crime doesn’t bother observer

5. Low level crime

   
   

Personal reasons in depth why crimes go unreported; not affected by crime.

1. Not affected, so don’t care

2. Victim not affected directly

3. victimless crime

4. Nothing to do w them (observer)

Social and cultural reasons in depth why crimes go unreported; lack of knowledge

1. Don’t know if it’s a crime

2. Don’t know how to report

3. Some cultures, crimes are different and so when a crime is committed in another country, they don’t recognise it as bad

4. Common act

Social and cultural reasons in depth why crimes go unreported; Complexity

1. Sometimes crimes are too complex to know they are happening, therefore if they don’t know a crime is happening, what would they report?

2. Links to white collar crime and technological crime

Social and cultural reasons in depth why crimes go unreported; Lack of media interest

1. If media doesn’t report crime, we will become desensitised to it.

2. Not all crime grabs media interest

Link to #METOO movement it connected people who suffered from sexual assault to speak up. Except this movement had a lot of media coverage therefore it became popular and people spoke up about their abuse.

Social and cultural reasons in depth why crimes go unreported; Lack of public concern

1. If crime doesn’t trouble public, they don’t care

2. Doesn’t attract public attention

3. Victimless