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Despite plentiful efforts to identify perpetrator, victim, and incident characteristics correlated with reporting violence againt women to police, few studies have addressed the contexts that shape such reporting.  Even fewer have examined variations in these contexts across deographic areas.  Drawing upon National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 through 2009, this paper uses conjunctive analysis of case configurations to identify and investigate the dominant situational contexts of reporting os violence against women to police across rural, suburban, and urban areas.  Our findings show that context matters and the importance of incident, perpetrator, and victim characteristics vary across geographical areas.