Treatment Acceptability among Crime Victims

Treatment Acceptability among Crime Victims

Crime victims receive relevant treatment too seldom and there is uncertainty as to whether those who need the treatment the most are among those who get it. Fifty-two consecutive adult crime victims were offered 10 sessions of psychotherapy within two weeks after an experienced trauma of criminal victimization. Twenty-six accepted and 26 declined the offer. The aim of the study was to explore s...

Victims of crime as victims of disaster.

The gross disparity between the routine attention paid to criminals and that paid to their victims led to the proposition that victims of major crime be treated as victims of disaster. The fresh appraisal might provide the impetus for appropriate services for them as a matter of social policy.

Which juvenile crime victims get mental health treatment?

OBJECTIVE To explore factors that facilitate the receipt of mental health treatment among juvenile crime victims. METHOD Telephone interviews were conducted with a national sample of 157 caretakers whose children had suffered a serious sexual or physical assault in the previous year. RESULTS Twenty-two percent of caretakers had thought about getting professional counseling for their child v...

Media , Victims and Crime 2 Chris Greer

Help seeking among victims of crime: a review of the empirical literature.

The authors review the literature on help-seeking behavior among adult victims of crime. Specifically, they summarize prevalence rates for formal and informal help seeking and review predictors of and barriers to service use following victimization. Research suggests that only a small fraction of crime victims seek help from formal support networks; however, many seek support from informal sour...