Does information about the way victims of gender-based violence (GBV) are treated by the police influence evaluations of government policies to combat gender-based violence? I theorize that because most citizens have incomplete information about such policies, information about procedural fairness should be given more weight when forming evaluations of the government’s performance in this domain. Using original experiments embedded in public opinion surveys collected from Brazil, I find that information about procedural unfairness powerfully predicts more critical evaluations of GBV laws and the government’s performance in helping victims. In addition, these critical opinions influence bystander intervention attitudes. Mediation analysis confirms that views of procedural unfairness are critical in explaining these effects. The implications of the findings for the implementation of specialized services are discussed in the results and conclusion.

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程序公平性是否会影响对政府打击性别暴力努力的评估？来自巴西的证据

有关警方对待性别暴力 (GBV) 受害者的方式的信息是否会影响对政府打击性别暴力政策的评估？我的理论是，由于大多数公民对此类政策的信息不完整，因此在评估政府在该领域的绩效时，应更加重视程序公平性的信息。利用从巴西收集的民意调查中嵌入的原始实验，我发现有关程序不公平的信息有力地预测了对基于性别的暴力法律和政府在帮助受害者方面的表现的更关键的评估。此外，这些批评意见也会影响旁观者的干预态度。调解分析证实，程序不公平的观点对于解释这些影响至关重要。