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National Justice Network Update
April 2010
Volume 17, Issue 4
THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SUPPORT SERVICES
StatCan has recently released many publications using Geographic Information System (GIS) to examine characteristics of neighbourhoods and crime distribution. The availability of resources for victims of crime and survivors is concentrated in some geographic regions, which correlate to the distribution of crime and level of crime and violence in those areas.
Research presented in the 2010 edition of the Department of Justice’s Victims of Crime Research Digest focused on violence against women support services, which showed that depending on where they live, some victims of crime/survivors have adequate access to services while others have little to no services at all. Front line workers who work in this field are aware of the imbalance of distribution of resources.
Studies from the UK show that one-third of the jurisdiction in the UK had no support services for women who experienced violence. They also found that these women had no access to rape crisis centres, and less than one in 10 jurisdictions had services for women of visual minority.
The UK research concluded that few areas had sufficient programs and services for women who endured violence, and several areas were underserved.
When a follow-up study was conducted in 2008, some improvements were made. Still, one in four jurisdictions still provided no services to women of visual minority and most of the new services primarily related to the criminal justice system.
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