Sexual Assault: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Not Being Believed by the Police

Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qu...

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Autores principales: Murphy-Oikonen, Jodie, Chambers, Lori, McQueen, Karen, Hiebert, Alexa, Miller, Ainsley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Original Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8899806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34074172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012211013903
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description Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) violent sexual assault, (c) dismissal by police, and (d) survival and resilience. These women were determined to voice their experience and make recommendations for change in the way police respond to sexual assault.
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spelling pubmed-88998062022-03-08 Sexual Assault: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Not Being Believed by the Police Murphy-Oikonen, Jodie Chambers, Lori McQueen, Karen Hiebert, Alexa Miller, Ainsley Violence Against Women Original Research Articles Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) violent sexual assault, (c) dismissal by police, and (d) survival and resilience. These women were determined to voice their experience and make recommendations for change in the way police respond to sexual assault. SAGE Publications 2021-06-01 2022-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8899806/ /pubmed/34074172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012211013903 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34074172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012211013903
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