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Maternal Abusers: Underlying concerns for children [PDF]

, 2010
Child sexual abuse is an emotive topic, which raises public fears and political concerns. Commonly the perpetrators of such abuse are male and their victims female, but evidence suggests that there are a significant number of female perpetrators as well.
Turton, J
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Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their ...
Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Helin Ünal, Zsolt P. Szabó, Hu Young Jeong, J. Christopher Cohrs, Danielle Black   +5 more
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing [PDF]

Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals' mental outcomes, we exploit detailed
Andrew Leigh, Francesca Cornaglia
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Interstitial crime analysis [PDF]

, 2014
Crime on public transport can be very difficult to analyse. 'Stealth crimes' like pick-pocketing present a particular challenge because victims often have an imprecise knowledge of the location and time of the offence.
Gill, Andy, Newton, Andrew D., Partridge, Henry   +2 more
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Assessing victim risk in cases of violent crime [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: There is a body of evidence that suggests a range of psychosocial characteristics demarcate certain adults to be at an elevated risk for victimisation. To this end, the aim of the current study was to examine consistency between one police force,
Brooks, Matthew, Bryce, Joanne, Graham-Kevan, Nicola, Irving, May, Karwacka, Marta, Khan, Roxanne, Lowe, Michelle, Robinson, Phaedra, Stokes, Rachel, Willan, Victoria Jane   +9 more
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How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning‐making. Through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of responding to government measures function during societal crises and ruptures.
Ella Marie Sandbakken
wiley   +1 more source

Un periodico come strumento per il giusto riconoscimento e la necessaria visibilità alle vittime / Un périodique comme instrument de reconnaissance due et de visibilité nécessaire aux victimes / A periodical as an instrument for the right recognition and the appropriate visibility to crime victims [PDF]

Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2012
The article retraces the history of Criminology, Victimology and Security Journal (Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza), making an overview of the topics addressed in the publications.The author considers that this periodical could ...
Sette Raffaella
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What lies beneath: exploring links between asylum policy and hate crime in the UK [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the link between increasing incidents of hate crime and the asylum policy of successive British governments with its central emphasis on deterrence.
A Dummett, A Harmit, Administrator, B Bowling, B Perry, British Crime Survey, C Coole, Children’s Commissioner, Crown Prosecution Service, D Coleman, D Frost, D Gadd, D Kahan, DP Green, E Bleich, E Goffman, F Anthias, G Cornelisse, G Mason, G Moon, H Hurd, H O’Nions, Helen O’Nions, Home Office, Human Rights First, Human Rights First, I Dale, ICAR (Information centre about asylum seekers and refugees), Independent Asylum Commission, J Banks, L Dixon, L Fekete, L Ray, M Wetherell, N Hall, O Fiss, O Parker, OG Bailey, OSCE, P Aspinall, P Iganksi, P Tuitt, R Capdevila, R Grillo, R Karapin, R Karapin, R Sibbitt, Refugee Action, Refugee Action, S Goodman, Scottish Executive, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Cantle, T Hayter, T Veenkamp, TA Dijk Van, TA Dijk Van, UNHCR   +59 more
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Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur, Alexandra Bruns, Ulrich Wagner, Maarten H. W. van Zalk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

JUDICIAL ASPECTS CONCERNING THE VICTIM IN THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM

EIRP Proceedings, 2007
A couple of decades ago, victims had few, if any, rights to be informed, present and heard within theAmerican criminal justice system. Moreover, victim assistance programs were virtually non-existent.
Liviu Mihail Marinescu, Emanuel Stefan Marinescu   +1 more
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