LAWS 3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Google Scholar, Thesis Statement, Victimisation
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Primary victimization: crimes that done against them, one to one relationships. Involves a feeling or emotion where someone was harmed or something has happened to them. Primary victims: directly experienced a crime, theft ,sexual assault, given the status of being a primary victim. Secondary victims those who are observers who immediately discover the traumatic effects of primary victims these individuals can experience trauma themselves eye witnesses, family members. Tertiary victims individuals who heard about an incident and feel about their safety: americans considered themselves as a victim of 9/11, media, neighbours, community members, past victims. Includes describe different types of victimization and different episodes of victimization: varies as it can be more than one perpetrators. Inner city dwellers, single, not employed, poor people, less likely to be insured as they cannot afford insurance premiums: shapland: victims of violence, discovered many effects along many years, sleeping disorders, low self-esteem.
