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Victimisation (or victimization) is the state or process of being victimised or becoming a victim. The field that studies the process, rates, incidence, effects, and prevalence of victimisation is called victimology.
Jan 6, 2020 · The findings indicate that violent victimization has palpable detrimental effects on security perceptions, trust and neighborhood satisfaction—but not on emotional well-being and life satisfaction—and that individuals largely recover from the victimization within 18 months.
Victimologists focus on a range of victim-related issues, including estimating the extent of different types of victimization, explaining why victimization occurs to whom or what, the effects and consequences of victimization, and examining victims’ rights within the legal system.
Victimization surveys contribute to measure crime, especially as concerns the part of unreported crimes, to identify victims’ characteristics and risk factors, and to study the subjective aspects of criminality (fear of crime, worries, defense strategies) that are collected in the main victimization surveys.
Victimology concerns victims of various traumas from accidents, disasters, assaults to wars. Survivors of trauma are also an area in clinical psychology since it is interested in the assessment and diagnosis of psychopathology and psychotherapy.
Research on specific interventions aiming to reduce victimization risk in persons with mental disorders remains rare, because victimization has traditionally been viewed as a risk factor rather than a consequence of mental illness.
Oct 1, 2024 · Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, a peer-reviewed journal focuses on both critical leadership and practical development representing victimological perspectives from a broad range of disciplines and contribute to a greater understanding of victims, victimization, victim- offender relations, institutional functioning and allied issues.
The experience of victimization may have a particularly critical influence on children’s ability to regulate their emotional responding to the world. Victimization occurring during adulthood has the effect of undermining acquired competencies and forcing a kind of psychological regression.
Feb 2, 2016 · This study systematically reviews 83 program evaluations to identify what works to (a) reduce victimization, (b) enhance beliefs/attitudes about victims, and (c) improve knowledge/awareness of ...
Aggression and victimization are inter-related across development. Engagement in aggression is associated directly with future victimization (e.g., Giesbrecht et al., 2011), and vice versa – victimization may predict general aggression and bullying behavior, potentially as a retaliatory response to victimization (e.g., Yeung & Leadbeater, 2007).
