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43 Policing: Int'l J. Police Strat. & Mgmt. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/polic43 and id is 1 raw text is: The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: www.emeraldinsight.con/1363-951X.htm Willingness to report crime to the police Traditional crime, cybercrime, and procedural justice Amanda Graham School of Criminal Justice, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA Teresa C. Kulig School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and Francis T. Cullen School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Abstract Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to understand the reporting intentions of traditional and cybercrime victimization, and the role of procedural justice in explaining sources of variation. Design/methodology/approach - Using Amazon's MTurk program for opt-in survey participation, 534 respondents across the USA considered ten victimization incidents and expressed their likelihood of reporting each incident to the police as well as their belief that the police would identify and arrest the offender. Findings - As expected, reporting intentions increased with the seriousness of the incident for both traditional crime and cybercrime. However, reporting intentions were generally slightly higher for incidents that occurred in the physical world, as opposed to online. Likewise, beliefs that police could identify and arrest and offender were lower for cybercrime compared to traditional crime. Consistently, predictors of reporting to the police and belief in police effectiveness hinged heavily on procedural justice. Other predictors for these behaviors and beliefs are also discussed. Originality/value - This study uniquely compares reporting intentions of potential victims of parallel victimizations occurring in-person and online, thus providing firm comparisons about reporting intentions and beliefs about police effectiveness in addressing traditional and cybercrime. Keywords Cybercrime, Crime, Victimization, Reporting intentions Paper type Research paper From memes to music and business to banking, the internet has undoubtedly changed worldwide human social interaction. The internet's ubiquity is evidenced in its use by nine out of ten Americans (Anderson et al., 2019) and by the estimated 6.5 h per day the average adult worldwide spends interacting online (Kemp, 2019). However, not all of this time is spent innocently watching cat videos, sharing photos from a recent vacation, seeking romantic partners or paying bills. More wayward internet users have used this medium for nefarious purposes - to commit cybercrime. Indeed, a collateral consequence of the internet's invention and integration into our social and economic life is the creation of the opportunity for cyber-victimization. Defined as any crime that is facilitated or committed using a computer, network, or hardware device, the absolute prevalence of cybercrime in America is unknown (Gordon and Ford, 2006, p. 14). For example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center, which receives complaints about internet crime, reported 301,580 complaints of people victimized in 2017, totaling $1.42bn in losses (FBI, 2018). Some of the most prevalent complaints were non-payment/non-delivery (84,079 victims), personal data breach (30,904 victims) and phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming (25,344 victims). Willingness to report crime to the police 1 Recived 24 July 2019 Revised 21 September 2019 Acepted 29 Ocober 2019 Policing: An InterationalJournal Vol. 43 No. 1, 2020 pp. 1-16 C Emerald Publishing Limited 1363951X DOI 10.1108/PUPSM-07-20190115

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