Victims as a Third Party: Empowerment of Victims?

Patients as Victims—Hospital Liability for Third- Party Crime

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.

Children as victims of violence.

Violence against children and youths has always occurred, but it has recently been subject to increased public attention. This heightened attention is spawned by high-profile cases of stranger abductions, sexual assault, child abuse, and homicide, and by statistics suggesting an increase in the number of cases of child victimization. For example, newspapers recently reported that almost twice a...

Children as Victims of Homicide

The death of a child is always tragic, but the death of a child by violence is horrifying to everybody. One in twelve homicides in Australia involves a child under the age of 15, and children under one are the most vulnerable. Data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program at the Australian Institute of Criminology reveals that in Australia during the period July 1989-December 1993, there w...

Gypsies as victims of the Holocaust.

While most of the research on the Holocaust has appropriately focused on the suffering of the Jewish population of Axis-occupied Europe, the Gypsies also were targeted for extinction by the Nazis. The Gypsies as a people survived the campaigns directed against them in large measure because they were located in areas under the control of governments allied with Germany. These governments general...