Gender identity: an examination of fears concerning reporting.

Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20001150
Title:
Gender identity : an examination of fears concerning reporting
Creator:
Lepak, Jamie Lynn (Author)
Contributor:
Farrell, Amy S. (Advisor)
McDevitt, John F. (Committee member)
Drakulich, Kevin M. (Committee member)
Publisher:
Boston, Massachusetts : Northeastern University, 2011
Date Accepted:
August 2011
Date Awarded:
May 2012
Type of resource:
Text
Genre:
Masters theses
Format:
electronic
Digital origin:
born digital
Abstract/Description:
The study explores qualitatively the fears that transgender and gender non-conforming college students have about reporting victimization to the police. This study uses a reverse social distance ideology to account for the space between transgender individuals and their treatment in society. This distance (often felt through discrimination and victimization) may be a predictor in transgender and gender non-conforming students not reporting victimization to the police or other service agencies. Study participants were recruited from nine colleges in a Northeast city for interviews to discuss reporting and help seeking behaviors. The findings suggest that social distance factors into students' perceptions of the police as well as their reporting and help-seeking habits.
Subjects and keywords:
criminology
hate crime victimization
help seeking
reporting
secondary victimization
indirect victimization
social distance
transgender and gender non-conforming
Criminology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17760/d20001150
Permanent Link:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20001150
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