Using Procedural Justice to Explore the Relationship betweeen Victim Satisfaction with Police and Victim Participation in Prosecution

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dc.contributor.advisorDugan, Lauraen_US
dc.contributor.authorGreenman, Sarahen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-07T05:33:01Z
dc.date.available2010-10-07T05:33:01Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis uses procedural justice to explore the relationship between victim satisfaction with the police and victim participation in prosecution. Prior procedural justice research has focused either on offenders or on limited sections of the criminal justice process. Expanding upon prior research by using victims and the entire criminal justice process, this thesis hypothesizes that increased victim satisfaction with the police leads to increased victim participation in prosecution and that this effect weakens throughout the prosecution process. Conversely, this thesis hypothesizes that increased victim satisfaction with the prosecutor leads to increased participation in prosecution and that this effect strengthens throughout the prosecution process. Using logistic and Tobit regressions this thesis finds some support for the hypotheses of this thesis: procedural fairness, police, and prosecutors all have an impact on victim participation. Future research can further delineate the questions that remain: when, how, and for whom satisfaction has the largest impact.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10767
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Criminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledParticipationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPoliceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProcedural Justiceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProsecutionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVictimsen_US
dc.titleUsing Procedural Justice to Explore the Relationship betweeen Victim Satisfaction with Police and Victim Participation in Prosecutionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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