Early concern focused on wife-beating but attention is now directed at a broader range of behavior. For example, Hester and Radford identify ‘a range of abusive behaviors’ such as ‘emotional cruelty, controlling and demeaning behavior including withholding of money, attempts at strangulation and threats to kill.
Read More…The definition of a victim also depends on whether the victim was at fault at the time the offense leading to his injury occurred. There is a greater degree of differing on the definition of the term victim. If the injury caused to the individual or the party offended is adequate, then the term victim can be used to refer to them.
Read More…This paper will begin with the statement that as an academic discipline, victimology has been a recent development. In the past, it is considered a branch of criminology. But in the 1940s and 1950s, through the help of scholars, movements, and activists, victimology finally became an independent academic field.
Read More…There are observing, enforcement, and equalizing mechanisms like courts and commissions in existence to encourage conformity with the regional instruments and to offer individuals a chance to claim human rights abuse. Regional human rights instruments may choose to consider human rights and support human rights compulsions.
Read More…Victimology involves the study of the psychological effects experienced by those who have been victimized and the application of this knowledge in assisting and providing support for those who have been victimized. Moreover, victimology is concerned with determining why certain people are victims of crime and what lifestyle factors affect the predisposition of certain segments.
Read More…Critical victimology, although has been a further advancement of the positivists, is usually criticized for portraying the real problems in an as incomplete manner as the radicals. This is because it fails to realize that the conception of who the victim really changes when different political and social conditions change.
Read More…Several procedures must be accomplished by a forensic odontologist to carry out a dental examination of the remains of an unknown person during post mortem examination. Results will be compared to the antemortem dental data of the individual under investigation. Photography, radiography, jaw resection, and dental impressions are necessary procedures.
Read More…The author states that greed for money and riches has triggered human trafficking where individuals concerned have their victims introduced to their evil ways of making money. The ways include an introduction to prostitution and pornography, and sexual exploitation in people of diverse ages; that is, children young adults, and even the old.
Read More…One of the strongest examples of blurred lines between offenders and victims comes in the area of domestic violence. People who are victims of domestic violence for an extended period of time often turn to violence themselves as a method of fighting back or because they do not want to be hurt anymore.
Read More…Despite the presence of several unresolved conceptual and practical issues, the notion of empowerment has remained central to the theory and practice of restorative justice. Despite the disadvantages pointed out by the opponents of victim participation in sentencing, it has gained prominence in the criminal justice system of England and Wales.
Read More…To this end, several reports presented by various organizations were scrutinized; and many decided cases were examined. These efforts were made, in order to fulfill the principal objective of this study, namely, to analyze the extant position of the miscarriages of justice, with regard to female victims.
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