Legal services in rural areas

Blacksell, Mark; Clark, Adele; Economides, Kim; Watkins, Charles

doi:10.1177/030913258801200104

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“…Multiple observers have posited that the spatial accessibility of civil legal aid services is a critical component of ensuring the equitable delivery of these services to low-income populations (Blacksell et al 1988;Economides et al 1986;Patel et al 2008). These observers have substantially advanced a spatially-aware knowledge of legal aid provider networks, yet they tend to conceptualize the problem of accessibility as being primarily dependent on the distance between client and provider.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This variable group includes three different population characteristics that scholars and or professional organizations argue mediate demand for civil legal aid services. Specifically, this group includes (1) the percent of a block group's population that resides in "urban" areas (Blacksell et al 1988; California Commission on Access to Justice 2010), (2) the percent of a block group's population who are persons of color (Sandefur 2008), and (3) the percent of a block group's population with limited English proficiency. All three measures were derived from the 2000 Census.…”

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The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

Schultheis¹

2014

J Empirical Legal Studies

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I propose an integrated method for evaluating the accessibility of civil legal aid services, one that is able to simultaneously account for spatial, social, and organizational accessibility determinants. Specifically, I use this study to empirically evaluate several core assumptions of accessibility research. First, I challenge the argument that gaps in the accessibility of civil legal aid services are driven by spatial mismatches and/or disconnects between supply and demand. Although these two factors are important, they only provide a partial explanation of the observed variation in the accessibility of civil legal aid services. Second, I challenge the commonplace assumption in accessibility research that the effects of accessibility determinants, including the spatial relationship between client and provider location, are consistent across social and geographic space. In addition to raising these issues, I also propose and develop a hierarchical linear model that attempts to bridge methodological approaches that limit our understanding of the interactions of the spatial, social, and organizational dimensions of civil legal aid services accessibility . Perhaps most importantly, the proposed accessibility model begins to offer providers novel insights into how to better allocate program resources to best serve their client population.

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Section: Schultheis B Study Variablesmentioning

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The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

Schultheis¹

2014

J Empirical Legal Studies

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“…Available research suggests that access to justice in rural areas presents specific challenges that are common across jurisdictions. Rural areas are frequently described as "legal deserts": they are sparse with legal assistance for people facing justice problemsin particular, they are sparse with lawyers (e.g., Blacksell et al 1991;Pruitt et al 2018). This is particularly acute in many low-income countries with few lawyers and developing legal systems, but also it represents an exigent challenge in many middleand high-income countries with well-established legal systems and infrastructure.…”

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All together now: Building a shared access to justice research framework for theoretical insight and actionable intelligence

Sandefur

Burnett

2023

OSLS

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As empirical research into access to justice burgeons around the world, contemporary work offers opportunities for integration and synthesis, generating insights that can inform both policy priorities and practical decisions about program design and implementation. Access to justice is historically a problem-focused research field, but an important strand of contemporary access to justice research focuses on solutions, or a deeper understanding “what works.” This paper offers a three-part framework for thinking about how research about “what works” in one jurisdiction can inform understanding of what might work in others. We propose a common core of research questions; a framework for conceptualizing the objects of study (in the example here, programs); and a framework for conceptualizing the contexts in which those programs might operate.

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Social justice and access to legal services: a geographical perspective

Blacksell

1990

Geoforum

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Legal services in rural areas

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

All together now: Building a shared access to justice research framework for theoretical insight and actionable intelligence

Social justice and access to legal services: a geographical perspective

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