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‘It’s not worth it, it’s just a bike’. Reporting property crimes in South-eastern European countries

The aim of this paper is to examine South- eastern European students’ experiences being victims of criminal offences against property or being witnesses to criminal offences against prop-erty ; to compare the extent to which students reported the crimes they were victims of or had wit-nessed ; and to examine their willingness to report a theft of property of minor value (bicycle theft) in a hypothetical victimization situation, considering their country of residence and previous experi-ence of reporting. The survey was conducted by an online survey in seven countries of South-eastern Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, Northern Macedonia, Slovenia, and Serbia) on a sample of 1, 419 students. The results indicate that a large proportion of property crimes go unreported, although most students are willing to report them.

reporting crimes, dark figure, property crimes, South-eastern Europe

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