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Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2007
Assessment of perceived social support and received social support available to victims of violent and non-violent crime is considered an integral function of the ensuing well-being for those victims. This study examines the effects of perceived and received social support on the initial levels of distress, coping strategy and subsequent well-being.
Diane L. Green, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy
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Assessment of perceived social support and received social support available to victims of violent and non-violent crime is considered an integral function of the ensuing well-being for those victims. This study examines the effects of perceived and received social support on the initial levels of distress, coping strategy and subsequent well-being.
Diane L. Green, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy
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Victimization and Fear of Crime
Violence and Victims, 1996Victimization has generally been associated with increased fear of crime. Analysis of two very large victimization surveys completed in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, explores the ways in which age and gender condition the experience of different types of victimization.
M, Weinrath, J, Gartrell
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Real crime, real victims: environmental crime victims and the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA)
Crime, Law and Social Change, 2012The Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) was signed into U.S. federal law in 2004 with the expressed purpose of empowering crime victims, expanding the role of the victim in federal criminal prosecutions, and providing more clearly defined roles for victims in court proceedings. As environmental crime cases have progressed through the federal court system,
Melissa L. Jarrell, Joshua Ozymy
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Victims of Crime as Victims of Disaster
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1989The gross disparity between the routine attention paid to criminals and that paid to their victims led to the proposition that victims of major crime be treated as victims of disaster. The fresh appraisal might provide the impetus for appropriate services for them as a matter of social policy.
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Accident and Emergency Nursing, 1998
Violence is the leading cause of serious facial injuries in the UK. This paper outlines how and why the police and hospitals should, together, be doing more to protect the increasing numbers of victims. This paper is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the publishers of Policing Today, which is the journal of the Association of Chief Police
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Violence is the leading cause of serious facial injuries in the UK. This paper outlines how and why the police and hospitals should, together, be doing more to protect the increasing numbers of victims. This paper is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the publishers of Policing Today, which is the journal of the Association of Chief Police
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Victims of Crime and the Victim Movement
2002Abstract In spring 1987 Mr s Cameron’s 14-year-old son was beaten to death at a Canberra school fete. His 17-year-old assailant was charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was convicted, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, and served twenty-one months.
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Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 1996
A selection of papers on victims of crime or interpersonal violence including domestic violence, sexual assault, physical assault and stalking behaviours is reviewed.The importance of interagency liaison is discussed as well as the neurobiological basis for the memory deficits apparent in post-traumatic stress disorder.
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A selection of papers on victims of crime or interpersonal violence including domestic violence, sexual assault, physical assault and stalking behaviours is reviewed.The importance of interagency liaison is discussed as well as the neurobiological basis for the memory deficits apparent in post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Study on victimization of crime: The trauma of crime victims in Japan
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1998During 6 years (1992–1997), 583 clients received a total of more than 2000 counseling sessions at the Counseling Service for Crime Victim Assistance (CSVA). Clients who receive individual counseling are diverse in features, ranging from those who are in the acute stage a few days after the traumatic event to those who sustained posttraumatic responses ...
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Collection Building, 1984
You never know, that's all, there's no way of knowing … Last week our lives were all right … But now I think we're going to be murdered. Just like that.” So begins The Shadow Knows, a novel whose major theme is a woman's panic about the possibility of danger to her family.
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You never know, that's all, there's no way of knowing … Last week our lives were all right … But now I think we're going to be murdered. Just like that.” So begins The Shadow Knows, a novel whose major theme is a woman's panic about the possibility of danger to her family.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
To the Editor.— Rodstein's article, "Crime and the Aged: 1. The Victims" (234:533-534, 1975), proposes "remedies" for the protection of older persons from assault or other crimes. At no point does the author consider the need for societal changes suggested by an editorial in the same issue ofThe Journal(234:521, 1975).
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To the Editor.— Rodstein's article, "Crime and the Aged: 1. The Victims" (234:533-534, 1975), proposes "remedies" for the protection of older persons from assault or other crimes. At no point does the author consider the need for societal changes suggested by an editorial in the same issue ofThe Journal(234:521, 1975).
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