RT Article
T1 Victims’ perceptions of police services: The perspectives of tourists as outsiders
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 24
IS 2
SP 103
OP 112
A1 Mawby, Rob I.
A2 Ozascilar, Mine
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1800608543
AB This article presents the first research to consider perceptions of the police held by non-resident victims, in this case US citizens on holiday either at home or abroad. Based on a small sample of 84 US residents victimised while holidaying in either the USA or four other countries, and drawn from Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform, it is, essentially exploratory. However, the findings suggest that tourist victims in our sample commonly reported their crimes and held extremely positive views of the way they were treated by the police, indeed more so than their experiences ‘back home’ had led them to expect. Most victims, nevertheless, said they would have appreciated more support, from the police and other sources. Although more research is needed to build on this study, the findings do underline the need for a greater focus on the experiences of foreign visitors and offer a template for future research on outsiders’ views of their experiences as victims.
K1 cross-national comparisons
K1 evaluations of police response
K1 reporting decisions
K1 foreign visitors’ perceptions of police
K1 policing tourism
K1 Tourist victims
DO 10.1177/14613557211064047