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Victimology: A Comprehensive Approach to Forensic, Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives

Victimology: A Comprehensive Approach to Forensic, Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives

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CriminologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3031129326
ISBN13: 9783031129322
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 29 2023
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The term victim refers to a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action. Victimology focuses on the victimization in terms of psychological effects, impact on criminal justice system and new policies and it is a major aspect in the area of forensic field. Victimization can occur due to abuse, assault, maltreatment, war, terrorism, crimes and it can happen in different settings like home, school, and public. In the past, more emphasis was given to perpetrators and various theories tried explain the behavior of perpetrator and their offences. Recently, researchers started focusing different aspects of victimology and explored risk factors for becoming victim, reasons for repeated victimization, and forensic, psychological and social dimensions of victims and consequences of victimization. But there is a need for new theories and researches to have more thorough understanding of victimization.

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