Alvidrez Jennifer, Shumway Martha, Boccellari Alicia, Green Jon Dean, Kelly Vanessa, Merrill Gregory
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 2727 Mariposa St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2008 May;98(5):882-8. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.113639. Epub 2008 Apr 1.
We examined whether providing active outreach and assistance to crime victims as part of comprehensive psychosocial services reduced disparities in access to state compensation funds.
We analyzed data from a randomized trial of injured crime victims (N = 541) and compared outcomes from comprehensive psychosocial services with usual community care. We examined the impact of outreach and assistance on disparities in applying for victim compensation by testing for interactions between victim characteristics and treatment condition in logistic regression analyses.
Victims receiving comprehensive services were much more likely to apply for victim compensation than were victims receiving usual care. Comprehensive services decreased disparities associated with younger age, lower levels of education, and homelessness.
State-level victim compensation funds are available to help individuals recover physically, psychologically, and financially from crime victimization. However, few crime victims apply for victim compensation, and there are particularly low application rates among young, male, ethnic minority, and physical assault victims. Active outreach and assistance can address disparities in access to victim compensation funds for disadvantaged populations and should be offered more widely to victims of violent crime.
我们研究了作为综合心理社会服务的一部分，为犯罪受害者提供积极的外展服务和援助是否能减少获得国家赔偿基金方面的差距。
我们分析了一项针对受伤犯罪受害者的随机试验（N = 541）的数据，并将综合心理社会服务的结果与常规社区护理的结果进行了比较。我们通过在逻辑回归分析中测试受害者特征与治疗条件之间的相互作用，研究了外展服务和援助对申请受害者赔偿差距的影响。
接受综合服务的受害者比接受常规护理的受害者更有可能申请受害者赔偿。综合服务减少了与年龄较小、教育程度较低和无家可归相关的差距。
国家级受害者赔偿基金可帮助个人从犯罪受害中在身体、心理和经济上恢复。然而，很少有犯罪受害者申请受害者赔偿，尤其是年轻、男性、少数民族和身体攻击受害者的申请率特别低。积极的外展服务和援助可以解决弱势群体在获得受害者赔偿基金方面的差距，应更广泛地提供给暴力犯罪受害者。
