دانلود کتاب قربانی شناسی رویکردی جامع به دیدگاه های پزشکی قانونی، روانی اجتماعی و حقوقی

The last few decades witnessed the fast growth of victimology and its impact on judiciary and policy makings, and this book is an attempt to explore more victims of different crimes. The term victim refers to a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action, and victimology focuses on the victimization in terms of psychological effects, impact on the criminal justice sys¬tem, and new policies, and it is a major aspect in the forensic field, especially the branch forensic victimology. Victimization can occur due to abuse, assault, mal¬treatment, war, terrorism, and crimes which can happen in different settings like home, school, and public places. The attempt to understand victims of various crimes and violence started since beginning of my career, and my work experience with victims of sexual abuse has given me the drive to explore further into this area in the late 1990s. Handling sexually abused males made me think in a different direction, and I understood that gender does not have much importance in the suf¬fering of the victims, in other words, psychological suffering caused by sexual assault or rape is more or less the same for both genders and individuals with differ¬ent sexual orientations. My clinical and research works with convicted offenders, especially sexual offenders, and the victims enriched my understanding of victim¬ization. I also dealt with intimate partner violence or domestic violence victims and abusers, and my long association with the criminal justice system made me curious about the link between various crimes and violence and its impact on the criminal justice system. All my 20 years of experience in this field enticed me to focus more on victimization and revictimization processes which eventually led to the develop¬ment of a book on victimization and a thread of new theory which I explain in the sixteenth chapter of this book.
The field of criminology deals with crime, and various theories have developed to explain why crime occurs. In the past, more emphasis was given to perpetrators, and various theories tried to explain the behavior of perpetrator and their offences. Recently, researchers started focusing on different aspects of victimology and explored risk factors for becoming a victim, reasons for repeated victimization, and forensic, psychological, and social dimensions of victims and consequences of vic¬timization. A crime involves perpetrator and victim and not much attention has been given to the victim until recently. What happens to a victim? What are the psycho¬logical and social consequences of a harmful act on a victim? Vulnerabilities lead¬ing to victimhood are garnering serious attention nowadays and beginning to influence the criminal justice system. The psychological and social impacts of vic¬timization may remain for a short or long duration, but the impacts cannot be ignored. Legal remedies and psychological healing are important aspects of victim¬ization. While considering these factors, the book would be focusing on the origin and scope of victimology, and different types of victimization such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, maltreatment, cybercrimes, war and terrorism, natural calami¬ties, victimization at school and workplace, human trafficking, crime against per¬sons, crime against property, elder abuse, a victim with disabilities, and secondary victim and re-victimization and its psychological impacts and related issues. The book gives more attention to victims and focus on them while mentioning various crimes and forms of violence. This book is an attempt to explore and combine recent development in the area of victimization on different dimensions to impart knowl¬edge mainly to students, researchers, clinicians, and academicians.