Long Term
There are so many factors in victimization. People who have been a victim of a crim can become re-victimized, for instance Law and Order-SVU episode"closure" the victims name is Harper. She is raped by a man and the police make her describe everything that happened then she has to explain it again to the detectives. They dont catch her rapist but 6 months later when they think they have, they find out she has moved changed her whole look and significant other. She then refuses to help them because she doesnt want to remember the past. She even wears running shoes to bed because she still has the "long term" effects chasing her. In real life there was a 17 year old girl who killed her sister which would also be considered to have long term effects on the entire family.Short Term
There is also an effect on people called short term, a crime that doesnt harm someone for a continuous cycle. There are a few short term type of crimes but long term is the more common. Short term effects can be caused by crimes such as small theft, smuggling, and a few others. In the link below is a sort of short term case. Victims of smugglers would only be short term in my mind.
Hi Destanee; mahalo for the post. So what we should do to mitigate (soften the impact) the impacts of crime on victims? How can we help those who have been affected by crime in both the short and long term? ANY IDEAS?
ReplyDeleteWell there are lots of programs like therapy, witness protection, and counselling to help deal with the effects. http://www.victimlinkbc.ca/vlbc/help/victims_of_crime.page shows how to get help aswell.
ReplyDeleteExcellent Destanee. Mahalo for identifying these options.
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