2022
DOI: 10.1177/14613557211064047
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Victims’ perceptions of police services: The perspectives of tourists as outsiders

Abstract: This article presents the first research to consider perceptions of the police held by non-resident victims, in this case US citizens on holiday either at home or abroad. Based on a small sample of 84 US residents victimised while holidaying in either the USA or four other countries, and drawn from Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform, it is, essentially exploratory. However, the findings suggest that tourist victims in our sample commonly reported their crimes and held extremely positive views of… Show more

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“…This is all the more notable given that, as we have demonstrated elsewhere (Mawby and Ozascilar, 2022), victims’ evaluations of the police, again largely based on CSEW questions, were very positive.…”
Section: The Findingssupporting
confidence: 72%
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“…This is all the more notable given that, as we have demonstrated elsewhere (Mawby and Ozascilar, 2022), victims’ evaluations of the police, again largely based on CSEW questions, were very positive.…”
Section: The Findingssupporting
confidence: 72%
“…I would have loved to get justice, with those responsible for the crime apprehended and prosecuted. This is all the more notable given that, as we have demonstrated elsewhere (Mawby and Ozascilar, 2022), victims' evaluations of the police, again largely based on CSEW questions, were very positive.…”
Section: Helping Tourist Victimssupporting
confidence: 63%
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“…Several interventions have been suggested to reduce and prevent crimes against tourists: some examples include establishing partnerships between the tourism industry and criminal justice agencies, facilitating crime reporting by tourists, creating specialized tourism police units or tourism victims' support services, making an effort to collect and analyze tourist victimization data to aid in the creation of targeted crime prevention initiatives, and tourist education campaigns (Buil-Gil and Mawby 2022;Albuquerque and McElroy 1999;Mawby 2017;Mawby and Özaşçılar 2022).…”
Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%