Crime Victims
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Relational victimization predicts children's social-cognitive and self-regulatory responses in a challenging peer context.

30 Aug 2009 In this study, the authors examined whether exposure to relational victimization was associated with children's thoughts, emotions, and behavior in an unfamiliar, challenging peer context. Children (110 girls, 96 boys; mean age = 10.13 years, SD = ... Read more...

Gangster, victim or both? The interdiscursive construction of sameness and difference in self-presentations.

30 Aug 2009 The paper conceptualizes two contradictory discourses, both used by ethnic minority drug dealers in a street drug market in Oslo, Norway. Oppression discourse includes personal narratives of unemployment, racism and psycho-social problems, often ... Read more...

Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing.

30 Aug 2009 Public confidence in policing is receiving increasing attention from UK social scientists and policy-makers. The criminal justice system relies on legitimacy and consent to an extent unlike other public services: public support is vital if the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Crime Victims'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• UN expert calls for greater care and assistance for victims of child pornography. 21 Sep 2009
• Relational victimization predicts children's social-cognitive and self-regulatory responses in a challenging peer context. 30 Aug 2009
• Gangster, victim or both? The interdiscursive construction of sameness and difference in self-presentations. 30 Aug 2009
• Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing. 30 Aug 2009
• A Study of the SIRS with severely traumatized patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Interventional use of the parent-child interaction assessment-II enactments: modifying an abused mother's attributions to her son. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-reported history of sexual coercion and rape negatively impacts resilience to suicide among women students. 30 Aug 2009
• Taking on school bullies. Interventions target bullies, victims, and bystanders. 30 Aug 2009
• Childhood bullying behavior and later psychiatric hospital and psychopharmacologic treatment: findings from the Finnish 1981 birth cohort study. 30 Aug 2009
• Violence against Women Raises Risk of Cervical Cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Self-reported peer victimization and child mental health: results of a cross-sectional survey among French primary school children. 30 Jul 2009
• Tending victims, tackling crime. A northwestern Minnesota hospital takes on violence and abuse. 30 Jul 2009
• Plan of action. Physicians are working with the City of Minneapolis to keep kids from becoming repeat victims of violence. 30 Jul 2009
• Associations of lifetime depression with trauma exposure, other environmental adversities, and impairment in adolescents with ADHD. 30 Jul 2009
• The effect of victim information on causality judgments in a rape trial scenario. 30 Jul 2009
• The intergenerational transmission of witnessing intimate partner violence. 30 Jul 2009
• Factors associated with violent victimisation among homeless adults in Sydney, Australia. 30 Jul 2009
• The long-term health consequences of relationship violence in adulthood: an examination of low-income women from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. 14 Jul 2009
• Sexual and physical revictimization among victims of severe childhood sexual abuse. 8 Jul 2009
• Lifetime assessment of poly-victimization in a national sample of children and youth. 6 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Crime Victims'

Definition: Individuals subjected to and adversely affected by criminal activity. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D019548

Alternative terms: Crime Victims; Crime Victim; Victim, Crime; Victims, Crime; Victimization;

Related Mesh Headings: Violence;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; economics; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.135;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific crime if pertinent (IM)