ACCOUNTING FOR THE 2ND ASSAULT - LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS FRAMING OF RAPE VICTIMS
ACCOUNTING FOR THE 2ND ASSAULT - LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS FRAMING OF RAPE VICTIMS
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DOI：
10.1086/492487
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发表时间：
1994-09-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
POWELL, RM
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作者：
MARTIN, PY;POWELL, RM
哪些组织和社区条件影响法律官员“无反应”地对待强奸受害者？我们的分析以戈夫曼的组织框架和活动框架理论以及马奇和奥尔森的组织制度理论为指导。我们利用佛罗里达州 130 个处理强奸案件的组织的数据，根据八项标准对六种类型的组织（包括医院急诊室和强奸危机中心）进行了比较，并审查了它们相对于反应迟钝的框架和活动框架。我们用受害者合法性问题来说明我们模型的实用性。我们的研究结果表明，法律组织中善意的工作人员通常会以冷漠的方式对待受害者。他们的组织通常会引导他们更多地关注公众的认可、避免损失和权宜之计，而不是受害者的需求。在我们的结论中，我们确定了法律官员和强奸危机中心可以促进对受害者的积极治疗的方法。我们还呼吁对那些对受害者做出回应的法律组织进行研究，并在全国范围内讨论“强奸受害者的政治需求”，以此解决构成强奸犯罪和法律的性别不平等问题，并引导法律官员对受害者采取反应迟钝的态度。
What organizational and community conditions influence legal officials to treat rape victims ''unresponsively''? Our analysis is guided by Goffman's theory of organizational frameworks and frames of activity and March and Olsen's institutional theory of organizations. Using data from 130 organizations in Florida that process rape cases, we compare six types of organizations (including hospital emergency rooms and rape crisis centers) on eight criteria and review their frameworks and frames of activity relative to unresponsiveness. We use the issue of victim legitimacy to illustrate the utility of our model. Our results show that well-meaning staff in legal organizations are oriented to routinely treat victims unresponsively. Their organizations routinely orient them to be concerned with, for example, public approval, the avoidance of losing, and expediency more than with victims' needs. In our conclusion, we identify ways legal officials and rape crisis centers can promote responsive treatment of victims. We also call for research on legal organizations that are responsive to victims and for a nationwide discourse on the ''politics of rape victims' needs'' as a means of addressing the gender inequality issues that underlie rape crimes and laws and orient legal officials to treat victims unresponsively.