Related Experiment Video
Updated: Sep 16, 2025
09:55
Bridging the Technology Divide in the COVID-19 Era: Using Virtual Outreach to Expose Middle and High School Students to Imaging Technology
Published on: September 28, 2022
1.8K
Geographic Disparities in Who Receives Victim Services
Lynn Langton1, Nicholas Thomas2, Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik2
1Justice Practice Area, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA laustell@rti.org.
Violence and Victims
|July 10, 2025
Summary
Geography impacts victim service access for violence survivors. Even after accounting for other factors, location significantly influences the likelihood of receiving support, particularly for serious violence cases.
Area of Science:
- Criminology
- Public Health
- Sociology
Background:
- Geographic disparities in crime victimization risk and victim demographics are well-documented.
- Previous research has not comprehensively examined national-level geographic variations in victim service accessibility.
- Understanding these spatial inequalities is crucial for equitable support provision.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate geographic variations in the receipt of victim services among individuals experiencing violence.
- To determine if geographical location influences service access independently of other known factors.
- To identify potential areas for improving victim service equity.
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
- Employed statistical analyses to examine geographical differences in service receipt.
- Controlled for demographic and crime-related factors influencing service utilization.
Main Results:
- Significant geographic variations in victim service receipt were identified.
- Location was a key predictor of service access, particularly for victims of serious violence.
- These geographic effects persisted even after controlling for other relevant variables.
Conclusions:
- Geographical factors play a substantial role in the accessibility of victim services.
- The findings highlight the need to address spatial inequalities in support systems for crime victims.
- Further research should explore the specific mechanisms driving these geographic disparities and inform targeted interventions.
Related Concept Videos
02:09Bystander Effect
9.7K
The discussion of bullying highlights the problem of witnesses not intervening to help a victim. This is a common occurrence, as the following well-publicized event demonstrates. In 1964, in Queens, New York, a 19-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked by a person with a knife near the back entrance to her apartment building and again in the hallway inside her apartment building. When the attack occurred, she screamed for help numerous times and eventually died from her stab wounds.
9.7K
01:14Fundamental Attribution Error
13.3K
According to some social psychologists, people tend to overemphasize internal factors as explanations—or attributions—for the behavior of other people. They tend to assume that the behavior of another person is a trait of that person, and to underestimate the power of the situation on the behavior of others. They tend to fail to recognize when the behavior of another is due to situational variables, and thus to the person’s state. This erroneous assumption is...
13.3K
01:30Specialized Care Centers and Settings-II
779
Rural Health Centers
Rural health centers are specialized care facilities in remote locations with very few medical personnel. The primary care providers who run the centers are mostly Registered Nurse Practitioners. Here, emergency treatment is provided to critically ill or injured patients before they are transferred to the closest hospital. Fortunately, due to advancement in technology, many rural healthcare facilities and professionals have easy access to diagnostic and treatment...
Rural health centers are specialized care facilities in remote locations with very few medical personnel. The primary care providers who run the centers are mostly Registered Nurse Practitioners. Here, emergency treatment is provided to critically ill or injured patients before they are transferred to the closest hospital. Fortunately, due to advancement in technology, many rural healthcare facilities and professionals have easy access to diagnostic and treatment...
779
02:16Stereotype Content Model
14.9K
The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) was first proposed by Susan Fiske and her colleagues (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick & Xu, 2002; see also Fiske, 2012 and Fiske, 2017). The SCM specifies that when someone encounters a new group, they will stereotype them based on two metrics: warmth—or that group’s perceived intent, and how likely they are to provide help or inflict harm—and competence—or their ability to carry out that objective. Depending on the warmth-competence...
14.9K
02:55Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
91.6K
Humans are very diverse and although we share many similarities, we also have many differences. The social groups we belong to help form our identities (Tajfel, 1974). These differences may be difficult for some people to reconcile, which may lead to prejudice toward people who are different. Prejudice is a negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on one’s membership in a particular social group (Allport, 1954; Brown, 2010). Prejudice is common against people who...
91.6K
01:29Applications of GIS: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
161
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is essential for risk identification, action prioritization, and resource optimization in critical situations like flooding and earthquakes. By integrating spatial and demographic data, GIS provides a comprehensive framework for emergency response.GIS integrates data layers, like rainfall intensity, topography, elevation profiles, and river levels, to model high-risk flood zones. These layers assess areas susceptible to flooding based on their...
161