Jurnal Psikologi Universitas Gadjah Mada
Vol 49, No 2 (2022)

Perspective of Justice among Advocates of Rape Victims

Mutia Husna Avezahra (Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Koentjoro Koentjoro (Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Aug 2022

Abstract

Rape cases involve various factors and perspectives. This study explored factors in constructing the perspective of justice among advocates of rape victims in Malang, East Java. This study adopted the qualitative phenomenology approach with semi-structured in-depth interview for data collection, and thematic analysis as the data analysis technique. The participants of this study were six advocates from two different women support groups and two experts, one was a Law lecturer and an investigator in the Woman and Children Service Unit (Unit Pelayanan Perempuan dan Anak) (UPPA) at Malang Police Department. The result revealed that justice perspectives of advocates were mainly rooted in the feminist concept at their ideological level; and therefore, the perceived meaning of justice tend to be idealistic and participants were rather dissatisfied with the existing legal system. Participants further expressed their self-interest to advocate based on the shared gender identity as women with the rape victims. As such, findings of this study might inform the evaluation of prevailing procedure and the substances of law enforcement leading to accommodating the needs of rape victims.

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jpsi

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Education Public Health Social Sciences

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Jurnal Psikologi (jpsi) is an open-access journal, dedicated to the wide dissemination of novel and innovative empirical research in various aspects of psychology, with a particular interest – the development of psychology and behavioral sciences in the world. Jurnal Psikologi invites manuscripts ...