RT Article
T1 Living in the Margins: Assessing Police Engagement as a Form of Victim Help-Seeking Through Legal Estrangement
JF Victims & offenders
VO 19
IS 4
SP 613
OP 640
A1 Nguyen, Thuy-Trinh
A2 Roman, Caterina Gouvis 1966-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888281847
AB 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.
K1 Victimization
K1 Reporting
K1 police interaction
K1 legal estrangement
K1 Help-seeking
DO 10.1080/15564886.2023.2214808