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Childhood Victimization and Crime Victimization
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010The purpose of this study is to determine whether abused and neglected children are at increased risk for subsequent crime victimization. We ask four basic questions: (a) Does a history of child abuse/neglect increase one’s risk of physical, sexual, and property crime victimization?
Jared Kean, McIntyre, Cathy Spatz, Widom
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Resilience and crime victimization
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2010AbstractWhat do we know about resilience in crime victimization? In this article, the authors discuss resilience defined as protective factors (e.g., personality characteristics, biological characteristics, social and cultural factors, and community characteristics); as a process of adaptation (e.g., self‐enhancement, positive cognitive appraisals ...
Mary Ann, Dutton, Rebecca, Greene
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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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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 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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Sociological Research, 2002
An analysis of the characteristics of female victimization resulting from various kinds of crimes is important both for law enforcement and to provide solutions to certain acute sociocultural issues, especially in the sphere of family and child rearing, public assistance to those in need, and the protection of human rights.
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An analysis of the characteristics of female victimization resulting from various kinds of crimes is important both for law enforcement and to provide solutions to certain acute sociocultural issues, especially in the sphere of family and child rearing, public assistance to those in need, and the protection of human rights.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Over the last 40 years, advocates for crime victims have succeeded in enshrining victims’ rights in state constitutions and other enactments. These provisions show that a consensus has developed around the country on certain core victims’ rights. Included in the core are, among other things, the right to notice of court hearings, to attend court ...
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Over the last 40 years, advocates for crime victims have succeeded in enshrining victims’ rights in state constitutions and other enactments. These provisions show that a consensus has developed around the country on certain core victims’ rights. Included in the core are, among other things, the right to notice of court hearings, to attend court ...
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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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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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