Social justice and access to legal services: a geographical perspective

Blacksell, Mark

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(90)90030-a

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“…T ravel cost to the service delivery location (SDL) ( cube root travel cost ): Several peer‐reviewed studies use the linear distance between a potential client and the SDL as a measure of the spatial accessibility of legal aid service providers (Blacksell ; Economides et al. ; Sandbach ).…”

Section: Empirically Testing the Ia2j Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He argued that the spatial proximity of client to provider and the spatial patterning of this proximity are critical to evaluating the accessibility of civil legal service delivery networks. Subsequent research, building on Blacksell's (1990) work, explored the conceptual complexity of spatial proximity measures by demonstrating the impact of mode choice on the distance clients are willing to travel (Patel et al 2008). Implicit in Blacksell (1990), and subsequent studies that build on his work, is the assumption that providing appropriate services to meet demand is primarily an issue of location optimization.…”

Section: An Alternate Approach To Evaluate Access To Civil Legal Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…'s () early conceptualization of the spatial and social dimensions of civil legal services need and demand was subsequently refined and applied to the legal needs of low‐income populations and expanded to evaluate access to civil legal service providers that serve low‐income populations. Blacksell () employed spatial analyses to document (1) the potential population of service users and (2) local‐scale spatial mismatches between the residences of potential clients and provider locations. He argued that the spatial proximity of client to provider and the spatial patterning of this proximity are critical to evaluating the accessibility of civil legal service delivery networks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Implicit in Blacksell (), and subsequent studies that build on his work, is the assumption that providing appropriate services to meet demand is primarily an issue of location optimization. Such approaches generally treat individual providers as interchangeable but for their location.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The present study measures spatial access to a service provider using a “friction of distance” measure as opposed to a linear distance measure, the dominant method employed by previous studies (Blacksell ; Patel et al. ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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: Empirically Testing the Ia2j Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%