Why victimology should stay positive: The ongoing need for positive victimology

Victims, victimization and victimology

From Victimology of the Act to Victimology of Action and the Resulting Impoverishment of the Scholarly Discipline of Victimology

In 1960 Sutherland and Cressey (1960: 55) maintained that Lombroso and the Italian Positivist School delayed by 50 years the progress of research on the aetiology of crime by considering crime as an individual rather than a social phenomenon in contrast with previous schools (such as Guerry & Quetelet). A similar criticism could be made of those victimologists who delayed the progress of theore...

The Vital Role of Victimology in the Rehabilitation of Offenders and Their Reintegration into Society

ion (as is often the case in delinquent acts committed against property), the awareness of the victim’s existence is weakened. Internalized norms and anticipations of the reactions of others must somehow be activated, if they are to serve as guides for behaviour; and it is possible that a diminished awareness of the victim plays an important part in determining whether or not this process is se...

Evaluation of the need for treatment on 72 subjects with anti-HBe positive chronic hepatitis B

Background: Viral load and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels may not be the key points for making a decision in the treatment of anti-HBe positive chronic hepatitis B. The purpose of this study was to assess the histological evaluation of liver to find the need for treatment on 72 patients with anti-HBe positive chronic hepatitis B. Methods: The liver biopsy slides of the 72 patients (56 s...

[Findings in studies of 104 victims of violence--contribution to the diagnosis of psychoanalytic victimology].