Victimisation


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The abuse of the disenfranchised—e.g., the underage, elderly, women, mentally impaired, illegal immigrants, etc.—by coercing them into illegal activities—e.g., drug trade, prostitution
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For want of a proper mechanism for victim assistance, victims inevitably get exposed to secondary victimisation.
Victim protection
Keywords: Hearing Impairment, Bullying, Victimisation, Physical and psychological health problems.
Bullying victimization: A risk factor of health problems among adolescents with hearing impairment
This then drives those that feel they do need help after victimisation towards informal support systems, such as online support groups, which tend to be accessed more readily than formal ones (AuCoin & Beauchamp, 2004).
Predictors of engagement with support services in a sample of UK victims of violent crime
Despite these difficulties with the measurement, age trends show a clear pattern with bullying and victimisation most common in late childhood, peaking at approximately 12 years of age with the transition to high school, and then declining thereafter.
Incidence of bullying and victimisation among adolescents in New Zealand
La victimisation jouerait un role mediateur important entre la non-conformite de genre et l'ajustement psychologique des jeunes (Toomey, Ryan, Diaz, Card et Russel, 2013).
Les experiences de victimisation, la sante mentale et le bien-etre de jeunes trans au Quebec
The meeting decided to ensure stringent measures to bring to justice the culprits and decrease the incidence of victimisation by ensuring case investigation by lady police officer, implementation over Women Protection Act 2013 and increasing awareness of women's rights.
Various police stations booked 1,122 cases of women victimisation in 5-year
The application of social-ecological theory to the conceptualisation of bullying and victimisation suggests that bullying perpetration and victimisation are reciprocally influenced by the individual, family, school, peer group, community and society (Swearer et al.
Bullying victimisation and adolescents: implications for school-based intervention programs
The claimant brought several unsuccessful claims in the Employment Tribunal, which included complaints of harassment, victimisation and discrimination.
New moves on discrimination
AN ASIAN policeman has won a race victimisation claim after he was handed an official warning for ignoring a parking fine.
Asian PC wins racism claim
For its project, Un Reseau de Petites Avenues - Developpement d'une approche de prevention du crime et de la victimisation, which intends to offer a program for Reseau tenants who are experiencing difficulties in integrating socially and economically in the community.
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TABLE 1 Simple bivariate correlations(a) r Beta (partial r) t Subjective Victimisation Risk (SVR) Victims 0.
Fear of crime and criminal victimization: testing a theory of psychological incapacitation of the 'stressor' based on downward comparison processes
In addition to the immediate symptoms, a recent Norwegian longitudinal study (Sigurdson, Undheim, Wallander, Lydersen, & Sund, 2015) revealed links between childhood bullying victimisation and mental health problems in adulthood.
Bullying and the detrimental role of un-forgiveness in adolescents' wellbeing/Acoso escolar y el papel perjudicial del no-perdon en el bienestar de los adolescentes

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