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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"crime victim"”.
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The Crime Victim Movement and United States Public Culture
This dissertation examines the U.S. crime victim movement's media practices within the larger context of public discourse about victimization by crime, violence and disaster from 1964 to the present. This work considers the predilection toward victims' rights approaches to crime and violence within …
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Villiga stödjare och motvilliga offer : Självpresentation och identitetsskapande hos stödjare och brottsoffer
Crime victim is a term with many connotations, which has been criticized for implying passivity and helplessness. To be categorized as a crime victim is not always welcomed. Still, being able to claim status as a victim is also connected to gains, in terms of both financial compensation and …
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Empirical Assessment of Risk Factors: How Online and Offline Lifestyle, Social Learning, And Social Networking Sites Influence Crime Victimization
… people are more exposed to various types of victimizations. The purpose of this study is to examine how our online and offline lifestyle choices can contribute to our risk of becoming a sexual crime victim. A random sample of college students from a Massachusetts college was used to gather …
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Exploring Justice for Crime Victims: Characteristics and Contexts of Crime Victims' Experiences with the Criminal Justice System
<p>During the last three decades, crime victims have increasingly been recognized by the criminal justice system as more than just witnesses for the prosecution. For example, in all 50 states crime victims are afforded specific statutory rights ranging from being treated with dignity and respect to …
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
… assigned to four different conditions: local victim news condition, nonlocal victim news condition, far victim news condition, and a neutral media condition. Participants viewed media clips that corresponded with their condition and then filled out a questionnaire that examined implicit …
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Ireland’s criminal justice system and its response to victims of crime with intellectual disabilities: adversarial procedure on trial
… criminal process addresses the specific needs of victims of crime with intellectual disabilities. By critically analysing the evolution of the adversarial legal tradition, it interrogates the epistemic values which have traditionally been at the heart of Ireland’s criminal justice narrative. …
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Tourism and crime, whose problem? : a Cornish perspective
Relating crime to tourism has seemingly been a taboo subject among tourism experts and researchers and it may be speculated, this is because crime is not a problem. Even fewer criminologists have thought to give the relationship a first, let alone a second glance and yet evidence exists which …
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The Role of Emotions in Judgments of Crime Victims
A growing body of evidence shows that crime victims’ emotional expressions can influence legal judgments, such as credibility assessments. However, the role of emotions in judgments of crime victims in interpersonal settings outside the legal arena has not been explored, and a range of potentially …
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Kränkning och upprättelse : En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersättning till brottsoffer
… in the question of how damages for violation of crime is determined. This type of non-pecuniary damages to crime victims has a fundamental uncertainty regarding the computation of damages and what is really meant by “violation” in the meaning of the law. There is also a gliding between the …