Victimology
A Comprehensive Approach to Forensic, Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives
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- Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan 0
Department of Clinical Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India
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- Defines victimization across different types of crime at length
- Separate chapters focus on medical and forensic investigations, as well as address report writing and revictimization
- Focuses on victims rather than perpetrators, with an emphasis on individual crime
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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.
The field of criminology dealt with crimes and various theories has developed to explain why crime occurs and more focused on perpetrators. A crime involves perpetrator and victim and not much attention has been given to the victim until recently. What happens to a victim, what are the psychological and social consequences of a harmful act to a victim, vulnerabilities to become a victim are getting serious attention now a days and started influencing the criminal justice system. The psychological and social impacts of victimization may be a short or long duration but the impacts cannot be ignored. The legal remedies and psychological healings are important aspects of victimization. While considering these factors, the book would be focusing on origin and scope of victimology, different types of victimization such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, maltreatment, cyber crimes, war and terrorism, natural calamities, victimization at school and work place, human trafficking, crime against persons, crime against property, white collar crime, elder abuse, victim with disabilities, secondary victim and re-victimization and its psychological impacts and related issues. The book would also focus on victimology and forensic factors and its influence on criminal justice system in addition to the psychological management of victimization.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
Front matter, recent updates on victimology and its influence on criminal justice system.
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
Working with Victims: Psychological Assessment of Victims and Mental Health of Professionals
- Smriti Maini, Kalpana Raman
Sexual Abuse
- Aarzoo Gupta, Archana Kashyap
Adult Molested as Child
- Namitha Babu
Intimate Partner Violence and Victims
Child maltreatment and forensic interview room in turkey.
- Huseyin Batman, Çağatay Serkan Kaya
Cyberbullying
- Michelle F. Wright
Victims of War and Terrorism
- Mahak Mathur, Gargi Chauhan Mehta, Vikas Singh Rawat
Trauma-Informed Psychological Supports When Natural Disasters Come
- York Williams
Victimization at School and Workplace
- Nagarhalli Ashwini Deshpande
Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact, and Action
- Sheeba Shamsudeen
Crimes Against Persons
- Afreen A. Hussain
Psychological Factors in Property Crimes: Theories, Traits, and Treatment
- Dorothy Bhandari Deka
Elder Abuse and Victims with Disabilities
- Vaitsa Giannouli
Secondary Victimization of Sexually Assaulted Women
- Milica Boskovic, Gordana Misev
Revictimization: Towards a New Theoretical Concept
Early childhood violence exposure and subsequent antisocial behavior: canadian indigenous young offenders case study.
- Claude R. Shema
Understanding Adolescent Behavior and Victimization of Special Populations Through Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory
Working with victims: psychological assessment of victims, editors and affiliations, about the editor, bibliographic information.
Book Title : Victimology
Book Subtitle : A Comprehensive Approach to Forensic, Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives
Editors : Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12930-8
Publisher : Springer Cham
eBook Packages : Behavioral Science and Psychology , Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-031-12929-2 Published: 28 October 2022
Softcover ISBN : 978-3-031-12932-2 Published: 29 October 2023
eBook ISBN : 978-3-031-12930-8 Published: 27 October 2022
Edition Number : 1
Number of Pages : XVIII, 472
Number of Illustrations : 8 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics : Forensic Psychology , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general , Criminal Behavior , Criminal Behavior
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Focussing on nine, dynamic and contemporary case studies covering topics like violence against women and girls, bereaved family activism, and environmental victims and climate change activists, each chapter critically examines how different crime victims have been politicised and explores the impact of victim-centred reforms upon criminal justic...
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