@article{ref1,
title="Living in the margins: assessing police engagement as a form of victim help-seeking through legal estrangement",
journal="Victims and offenders",
year="2024",
author="Nguyen, Thuy-Trinh and Roman, Caterina",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="613-640",
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.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1556-4886",
doi="10.1080/15564886.2023.2214808",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2023.2214808"
}