SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HELP-SEEKING: WHEN DO ELDERLY VICTIMS OF CONSUMER FRAUD NOTIFY AUTHORITIES?

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dc.contributor.advisorSimpson, Sally S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGu, Ziyueen_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.accessioned2022-02-02T06:38:21Z
dc.date.available2022-02-02T06:38:21Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractResearch on victim help-seeking behavior examines factors that could encourage victim’s crime reporting behavior. While most studies focus on the incident and victim demographic characteristics of traditional street crimes, the reporting patterns of fraud victims have been overlooked. The research question of this thesis assesses how different types of social support affect the decisions of reporting their fraud victimization incidents to the police and to other government agencies among the elderly fraud victims. Using data from a 2010-2011 Consumer Financial Exploitation survey of 2,000 randomly selected elderly individuals who were 60 years and older, the current study analyzes the impact of social support on victim reporting with logistic regression models. The findings suggest that although there are nuances based on the types of reporting behavior, in general, when elderly fraud victims receive higher levels of social support, they are more likely to report their victimizations to authorities.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/zkpp-mqjy
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28369
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCriminologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledElderly Frauden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial Supporten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVictimizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWhite-collar crimeen_US
dc.titleSOCIAL SUPPORT AND HELP-SEEKING: WHEN DO ELDERLY VICTIMS OF CONSUMER FRAUD NOTIFY AUTHORITIES?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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