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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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Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims
American Journal of Sociology, 2023Existing 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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