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Real crime, real victims: environmental crime victims and the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA)

Crime, Law and Social Change, 2012
The 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

Criminal Justice in Scotland, 2019
S. Moody
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Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims

American Journal of Sociology, 2023
Existing literature argues that the incorporation of “crime victims” into the U.S. state has been a causal force in carceral expansion. I argue that instead of carceral expansion alone, victim politics have contributed to penal-welfare hybridity: the ...
Paige L. Sweet
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Are Asian Victims Less Likely to Report Hate Crime Victimization to the Police? Implications for Research and Policy in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Crime and delinquency, 2021
Anti-Asian hate crimes have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, no research has considered whether crime reporting patterns are different among Asian hate crime victims, relative to other victims.
Brendan Lantz, Marin R. Wenger
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Victims’ experiences in the criminal justice system and their recovery from crime

International Review of Victimology, 2013
Jo-Anne Wemmers
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Childhood Victimization and Crime Victimization

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The 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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Victimization and Fear of Crime

Violence and Victims, 1996
Victimization 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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Resilience and crime victimization

Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2010
AbstractWhat 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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Psychological Distress, Formal Help-Seeking Behavior, and the Role of Victim Services Among Violent Crime Victims

Victims & Offenders, 2018
Using data from the 2015 National Crime Victimization Survey, this research explores the characteristics related to psychological distress and formal help-seeking behavior among victims of violent crime.
Tasha J Youstin, Julie A. Siddique
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Crime Victims

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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