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Assistance to and Protection of Victims

2023
Abstract This chapter examines Article 25 of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). It explains how the provision addresses the offences that involve harm to persons and the obligations of States Parties to provide victims with access to compensation and restitution.
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Compensation and Victim Assistance

2016
Victim’s access to compensation was initially justified to support the healing of the victims of crime following the state’s failure to apprehend crime and secure the peace. Payments to victims initially accompanied sentencing proceedings as a separate civil claim, requested by the prosecution or occasionally, victims themselves. Claims were determined
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Assistance to Victims of Burglary

1984
In 1983, at least 1 in 40 households in England and Wales, Canada, and the United States can expect to be the victim of a residential burglary (Waller and Touchette, 1982; Winchester and Jackson, 1982). In central city areas, 1 in 12 residences will be burgled.
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Psychological assistance to victims throughout difficult trials

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2007
In France, only very recently have victims begun to be assisted throughout "difficult" trials. We have developed different hypotheses to think over the function of psychologists when they step in to help out victims of criminal offences. Moreover, we have developed an argument for the need to set up units of medical and psychological assistance for ...
Nicolas, Combalbert, Michèle, Vitry
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6 Recovery and Restoration in Victim Assistance

2010
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Assisting Older Victims of Disasters

Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2006
The tumultuous catastrophic tragedies of the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 and September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon have caused urgency for the profession of social work to be ready to respond to unexpected crises whether directed to an individual, group, or nation. While there has always been the possibility of tragedies in the
Barbra L, Torgusen, Jordan I, Kosberg
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Victim Assistance and the Criminal Justice System: the Victim’s Perspective

1986
The reactions of victims to the criminal justice system and to society’s attempts to assist them cannot be understood without, first, considering the effects of crime on the victim. These effects are not confined to the immediate consequences of the offense – physical injury, shock, loss of property, time off work or financial losses.
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Models of victim assistance: a conceptual review and observation of experience of three centers of victim-assistance in Bogotá

2010
El presente documento contiene una revisión conceptual de los modelos de asistencia a víctimas de tres centros de victimoasistencia por causa delictiva y de graves violaciones de los derechos humanos, ubicados en la ciudad de Bogotá. La revisión es complementada con una metodología de exploración empírica.
Bocanegra Bayona, Daniel Fernando, Nieto Súa, Dary Lucia Esperanza   +1 more
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Surfing the Crime Net: Victim Support and Victim Assistance Programmes

Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2004
Harm reduction is the bedfellow of crime prevention. Providing services for victims at the time an offence is reported to the police may help alleviate the pain of victimisation and enable crime victims to cope. At the same time, they may be offered advice on crime prevention, access to crime reduction programmes, and help in filling up claim forms and
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Access to Victims and Humanitarian Assistance

2016
The international law governing disaster response and humanitarian assistance has developed into a comprehensive body of law dealing with the initiation of relief, questions of the status of humanitarian actors and the right of access to the victims. The Special Rapporteur of the UN International Law Commission on the Protection of Persons in the Event
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