Abstract While victimization is as old human history, the notion of victimhood currently understood a relatively recent phenomenon. Over last several decades, has been increasing discussed both within academia and wider public, trend that intensified in years. In order to gain clearer vision this social phenomenon, current piece follows lead Georg Simmel, identifies new Simmelian type— Victim ....

road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

Suppose that victim j employs a bandwagon strategy {δ, δ&j}. We will characterize victim i’s best response, beginning with period 2. If victim i filed suit in period 1, then he has no further action to take. Suppose that victim i did not file suit in period 1. If victim j filed suit in period 1, then victim j has no further action to take and nothing will change in the future; thus victim i wil...

This paper describes an attack concept termed Drive-by Pharming where an attacker sets up a web page that, when simply viewed by the victim (on a JavaScript-enabled browser), attempts to change the DNS server settings on the victim’s home broadband router. As a result, future DNS queries are resolved by a DNS server of the attacker’s choice. The attacker can direct the victim’s Internet traffic...

OBJECTIVE Americans do not vaccinate nearly enough against Influenza (flu) infection, despite severe health and economic burden of influenza. Younger people are disproportionately responsible for transmission, but do not suffer severely from the flu. Thus, to achieve herd immunity, prosocial motivation needs to be a partial driver of vaccination decisions. Past research has not established the ...

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between neighborhood factors and adolescent victimization for low- and high-risk areas of Milwaukee, Wis. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we compared neighborhood characteristics based on the US Census Database by rates of adolescent victim rates as measured through victim client enrollment in an adolescent violence intervention program. Multiple reg...

Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm ("individualizing values") versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships ("binding values": loya...

Children's responses to bullying are context related; they will vary depending on the specific bullying episode. The aim of the present study was to explore whether children's responses to bullying vary depending on the gender of the bully and victim and the type of bullying portrayed. In total, 437 children aged 9-11 years from four primary schools in the UK took part in the study. Each child ...