Violence against children in Nyarugusu Refugees Camp: reporting and perceptions across generations

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dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Erin K.
dc.contributor.authorGitter, Seth R.
dc.contributor.authorWilhelm, Savannah
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T18:11:16Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T18:11:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.description.abstractThere are over two million displaced children worldwide living in established refugee camps. Many of these children have escaped violent conflict in their country, but still are victims of violence in camps. Yet, little is known about this violence and how camp residents subsequently react to it. We examine the issue of reporting violence using a sample of over 300 child-parent pairs of Burundian and Congolese refugees residing in Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. To elicit social norms around reporting violence against children we use fictional vignettes of violent situations with randomized characteristics against a hypothetical child to measure parents’ and children’s perceptions of when children will report violence. Parents and children have similar beliefs that the vignette victims are more likely to report violence in school than in other locations. One contrast is that parents believe victims are more likely to report sexual violence than other types of violence while children do not. Additionally, we find a strong relationship between a parent and their child’s beliefs of when the hypothetical victim would report violence.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://ideas.repec.org/p/tow/wpaper/2018-01.htmlen_US
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dc.format.extent34 pagesen_US
dc.genreworking papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m26ha3-o4gp
dc.identifier.citationErin K. Fletcher & Seth R. Gitter & Savannah Wilhelm, 2018. "Violence Against Children in Nyarugusu Refugees Camp: Reporting and Perceptions Across Generations," Working Papers 2018-01, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised Mar 2018.en_US
dc.identifier.otherJEL: F22
dc.identifier.otherJEL: O15
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/12863
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTowson University. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTowson University Department of Economics Working Paper Series;2018-01
dc.subjectChildren and violenceen_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Burundien_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Congo (Democratic Republic)en_US
dc.subjectNyarugusuen_US
dc.subjectRefugee campsen_US
dc.titleViolence against children in Nyarugusu Refugees Camp: reporting and perceptions across generationsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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