Community-engaged research can be effective in directly improving justice for individuals and communities, and to guide policies and practices. Given the challenges to accessing some populations of interest, such as with rural victims of crime, community-engaged approaches provide a means to support ethical and culturally competent research that can improve justice in a meaningful way. In this article, we discuss a collaborative research partnership between academic researchers and a victim service agency that sought to connect rural victim advocacy with a data-driven research methodology for improved justice delivery in two communities with differing rural dynamics. Researchers and practitioners can benefit from recognizing the unique, yet varied, victimization experiences within rural communities, and an understanding of this variability among rural victims and contexts can inform justice practice. We provide best practice recommendations from both researcher and practitioner perspectives for the successful implementation of a project that serves victims in the community and through policy. Implications for justice-related policy and practice for rural and American Indian crime victims are discussed.

社区参与的研究可以有效地直接改善个人和社区的司法公正，并指导政策和实践。鉴于获取某些感兴趣的人群（例如农村的犯罪受害者）面临的挑战，社区参与的方法提供了一种支持具有道德和文化底蕴的研究的手段，可以有意义地改善司法公正。在本文中，我们讨论了学术研究人员与受害者服务机构之间的合作研究伙伴关系，该合作伙伴关系旨在将农村受害者的倡导与数据驱动的研究方法联系起来，以改善两个具有不同农村动态的社区的司法公正。研究人员和从业人员可以从认识到农村社区独特而多样的受害经历中受益，对农村受害者和环境的这种可变性的了解可以为司法实践提供参考。我们从研究人员和从业人员的角度提供最佳实践建议，以成功实施通过社区政策为社区受害者服务的项目。讨论了与农村和美洲印第安人犯罪受害者有关的与司法有关的政策和实践的含义。