ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

本文提供了一种将警察报告文献转移到寻求帮助的背景中的尝试。目前的研究使用法律疏远框架来检查复杂的受害者寻求帮助的决定，以警察参与的形式，为居住在宾夕法尼亚州费城暴力犯罪率高的贫困社区的个人提供帮助。对半结构化访谈进行了主题分析，发现寻求帮助是一个动态过程。在有色人种受害者中，法律疏远框架将寻求帮助的决定置于背景之中，而其他社会生态和情境特征同时影响寻求帮助的行为。程序不公正、替代边缘化和结构性排斥的概念在寻求帮助者和非寻求帮助者身上都有体现。