Living in the Margins: Assessing Police Engagement as a Form of Victim Help-Seeking Through Legal Estrangement

This paper offers one attempt to move police reporting literature into help-seeking contexts. The current study uses the legal estrangement framework to examine complex victim help-seeking decisions, in the form of police engagement, for individuals living in impoverished neighborhoods with high vio...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Thuy-Trinh (Autor) ; Roman, Caterina Gouvis 1966- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2024
En: Victims & offenders
Año: 2024, Volumen: 19, Número: 4, Páginas: 613–640
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Victimization
Reporting
police interaction
legal estrangement
Help-seeking
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Sumario:This paper offers one attempt to move police reporting literature into help-seeking contexts. The current study uses the legal estrangement framework to examine complex victim help-seeking decisions, in the form of police engagement, for individuals living in impoverished neighborhoods with high violent crime rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A thematic analysis was applied to semi-structured interviews and found help-seeking is a dynamic process. Among victims of color, the legal estrangement framework contextualizes the landscape of help-seeking decisions, while other socio-ecological and situational characteristics simultaneously influence help-seeking behaviors. Concepts of procedural injustice, vicarious marginalization, and structural exclusion are reflected in both help-seekers and non-help-seekers.
ISSN:1556-4991
DOI:10.1080/15564886.2023.2214808