RT Article
T1 They Must Have Done Something! Socioeconomic Status and Citizens’ Support for the Victims of Violence
JF Victims & offenders
VO 16
IS 2
SP 183
OP 202
A1 Zizumbo-Colunga, Daniel
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747363871
AB Why do some victims of criminal atrocities mobilize the public while others do not? I argue that victims’ socioeconomic background systematically biases citizens’ evaluations. I use experimental methods to assess this claim among a representative sample of citizens and elites interviewed during the Mexican war on drugs. I find citizens to be more likely to dismiss victims as responsible for their misfortune when they come from lower socioeconomic strata, and that this bias is concentrated among elite and high-socioeconomic-status citizens. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the psychology of victim-blaming and the origins of justice inequality.
K1 Experiment
K1 Discrimination
K1 Organized crime
K1 War on drugs
K1 Mexico
K1 Socioeconomic status
K1 Executions
K1 Homicide
K1 Victim-blaming
DO 10.1080/15564886.2020.1850584