@article{ref1,
title="Doing the "right thing"? Understanding why rape victim-survivors report to the police",
journal="Feminist criminology",
year="2020",
author="Brooks-Hay, Oona",
volume="15",
number="2",
pages="174-195",
abstract="This article explores why victim-survivors engage with the police by drawing upon the accounts of 24 women who reported rape or sexual assault in Scotland. <br><br>FINDINGS defy public narratives around rape reporting, indicating that victim-survivors may exercise limited agency in reporting. Moreover, a problematic &quot;aspiration-reality gap&quot; exists due to stark differences between the aspirations attached to reports and the reality of the ensuing criminal justice response. It is suggested that the concepts of &quot;secondary victimization&quot; and the &quot;justice gap&quot; can be augmented through appreciation of the &quot;aspiration-reality gap,&quot; and contemporary preoccupation with increasing rates of reporting is called into question.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1557-0851",
doi="10.1177/1557085119859079",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085119859079"
}