The Reason for Non-Reporting Crime Victimization: A Study on Urban Area in Bangladesh

Abdullah Al Faruque; Md. Omar Faruk; Tamalika Paul; Mst. Sharmin Sultana

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6699

The Reason for Non-Reporting Crime Victimization: A Study on Urban Area in Bangladesh

Author(s)	Abdullah Al Faruque, Md. Omar Faruk, Tamalika Paul, Mst. Sharmin Sultana
Country	Bangladesh
Abstract	This study has mainly explored the current extend of dark figure of crime in urban areas in Bangladesh. It was exploratory in nature. The samples were selected through randomly using a clustered sampling technique from 14 particular areas and respondents were selected as victimized person or their household heads in this study. It has conducted with a structured and standardized survey questionnaire for data collection and using SPSS statistical tools for analyzing data. The socio demographic findings of the study is that the total number of the respondents was 3,957, among them most of them are female about 57% who are belonging in a Muslim family with average family size of 5 members with average age of 37 years, with average income 37,000 TK and living in their own house in urban area and most of them are housewife and about 52% have completed the secondary level of education. On the other hand the major findings are indicated as about 74% did not go to any institution for reporting, while only 26% are approached for legal help. As per the study findings, theft constitutes the highest number for victimization, where 79% percent of the theft victim did not report for it. Even though within the total type of crime, about 49 percent of the victim who did not report for the crime found out to be a theft victim. There are various reasons have found for dark figure of crime such as Police behavior is not friendly to reporting, victim considered the crime as insignificant and police service needed monetary involvement etc. but most of respondents have said they wanted to avoid the inconvenience of calling the police in such petty cases (About 25.7%). Finally, in this study, it has been explained the findings as the three main perspectives such as problem of existing criminal justice system, victim’s social and also their personal perspectives.
Keywords	Crime Victimization, Dark Figure, Crime Victim, Urban Area and Victimization Survey.
Field	Sociology > Administration / Law / Management
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-09-22
Cite This	The Reason for Non-Reporting Crime Victimization: A Study on Urban Area in Bangladesh - Abdullah Al Faruque, Md. Omar Faruk, Tamalika Paul, Mst. Sharmin Sultana - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6699
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6699
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gssfmd

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