Why victimology should stay positive: The ongoing need for positive victimology
This paper presents the need for positive victimology and its unique contribution to victimology. Victimology presented a shift in attention and awareness in practice, research and theory, by focusing on victims of crime and of abuse of power, and on victims’ rights and victims’ services. P...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Victimology Society of Serbia and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Temida |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2015/1450-66371504005R.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper presents the need for positive victimology and its unique
contribution to victimology. Victimology presented a shift in attention and
awareness in practice, research and theory, by focusing on victims of crime
and of abuse of power, and on victims’ rights and victims’ services. Positive
victimology indicates a more specified shift in attention and awareness,
within the larger shift of victimology. This shift stands in line with
positive psychology, positive criminology and the idea of victims’
victimology. It denotes an approach to provide the following, as much as
possible: 1. A wide range of social responses to the victims and their
victimization that victims can experience as positive, 2. Positive outcomes
of healing and recovery for victims, and 3. Positive integration of victims.
Within each of those, positive victimology suggests a pragmatic coordinated
system that ranges from definitions of negative poles to those of positive
ones. When moving towards the positive pole at any given coordinate, a sense
of justice is an important factor that might reduce the impact of the harm.
Support is also a crucial factor and at the very positive pole, stands human,
inter-personal love. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-6637 2406-0941 |