Does context matter? Examining robbery reporting in a high crime country

Abstract

Most empirical studies that examine why individuals report property crimes to the police have focused on Global North countries where crime rates are low. This study is situated in the most violent area of the world, Latin America, and examines Peru, which has the highest robbery victimization rate in the Americas. This article examines the applicability of theories of crime reporting in this Global South context using a large sample and multilevel modeling. We find that trust in the police has no impact on the reporting of the robbery of one’s cellphone, purse or wallet. The theories of rational choice and Black’s stratification of law provide strong explanations for the reporting of robbery of these personal items. Individuals of higher social status and those who reside in districts with low levels of social disadvantage are more likely to report, as well as those who have experienced violent victimization.

Impact of business intelligence on incident management in the control center of a security company

“…In this way, business intelligence (BI) technology is used as a solution, since it allows control over information and increases user satisfaction through the support provided by the tool in the operation of the company through data [11]; because the source of information used allows quantifying, analyzing and understanding the risks, achieving the improvement of decisions by managers and streamlining information processes by reducing the workload in the face of different problems that arise [12]. In Peru, incident management is present in certain business environments, where data is used to understand the context in past years [13], so proper management will facilitate the best decisions in the incidents that arise most frequently in an organization. For this reason, a BI solution will facilitate the analysis of raw data to transform it into useful information [14].…”

Impacto de los linchamientos de delincuentes en la frecuencia de delitos denunciados en Perú durante 2017

“…En las zonas urbanas del Perú, en el periodo marzo-agosto de 2021, el 16,7% de la población mayor de 15 años indica que fue víctima de algún hecho delictivo; sin embargo, solo el 16,3% de esta población realizó la denuncia del hecho delictivo (INEI, 2021). Esta tasa de denuncia de delitos está determinada, principalmente, por la posición relativa del individuo en la sociedad, antes que por la desconfianza en la policía (Hernández & Heimark, 2021). Esto implica que aquellos individuos de mejor posición social y que se encuentran en lugares con menores disparidades sociales tienen mayores probabilidades de denunciar un hecho delictivo.…”