Encouraging and discouraging factors to crime reporting in South Africa: a survey of residents’ crime reporting behaviour in Mthatha South Africa police service precinct

The aim of this study was to explore issues concerning dispositions of crime-reporting behaviour of both witnesses and victims and comes against a backdrop of a rise in crime levels in South Africa. The study specifically examined the discouraging and encouraging factors for crime reporting in Mthat...

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Main Authors: Ithandile Mbewu, Emeka E Obioha, Ishmael Mugari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:Cogent Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2021.2002542