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Multiple Victimization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Abstract

The author proposes a review of the multiple victimization literature and draws some outlines of an appropriate victimological policy.

Résumé

Résumé

L’auteur passe en revue la littérature concernant la victimisation multiple, et en tire les lignes d’une politique victimologique adéquate.

Resumen

Resumen

El autor analiza la literatura relativa a la victimización múltiple, y avanza la líneas básicas de una política victimológica adecuada.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 International Society for Criminology

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Vice-president of the International Criminology Society for Latin America. Representative in Brazil for the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation. Research Professor of the University of Florida - United States. Full Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Federal University of Pará Amazônia, Brazil.

References

(1) Hindelang, M., Gottfredson, M., Garofalo, J., Victims of Personal Crime : an Empirical Foundation for a Theory of Personal Victimization. Cambridge, Ballinger, 1978, p. 16-21.

(2) The term vitimidade (the condition of being a victim) opposes to the term criminality, inasmuch as the same is the complex of conducts and antisocial acts that used to characterize the volume of crimes committed in a determined context.

(3) Pease, K., Farrell, G., «Once Bitten, Twice Bitten : Repeat Victimisation and its Implications for Crime Prevention ». In : Crime Prevention. London, 1993, Home Office, p. 46.

(4) Van Dijk, J.J.M.. Criminal Victimization and Victim Empowerment in an International Perspective. New York, Criminal Justice Press, 1999, p. 16-38.

(5) Sampson, A., Phillips, C., « Multiple Victimization : Racial Attacks on an East London Estate ». In : Crime Prevention. London, Home Office, 1992, p. 36.

(6) Van Dijk, J.J.M., Attitudes of Victims and Repeat Victims Toward the Police : Results of the International Crime Survey. New York, Criminal Justice Press, 2001, p. 18-41.

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(9) Ken Pease disagrees with precision on those three hypotheses. See : Pease, K., « Repeat Victimisation : Taking Stock ». In : Crime Prevention. London, 1998, Home Office, p. 90-92.

(10) Hentig, H. von, The Criminal and his Victim. Yale, University Press, 1948, p. 408413.

(11) Severin Versele, Belgian Professor who projected the conception of the vítima nata. Consult : Versele, S., Appunti di Diritto e di Criminologia con Riguardo alle Vittime dei Dilitti, La Scuola Positiva. Milano, Editora Giuffrè, 1962, n° 4, p. 595.

(12) Baril, M., L’Envers du Crime. Cahier du Centre International de Criminologie Comparée. Montréal, Université de Montréal, 1984, n° 2, p. 13-18.

(13) Fattah, E., «Victims’ Rights : Past, Present and Future. A global View». In : œuvre de Justice et Victimes. Vol. 1er - Paris, l’Harmattan Sciences Criminelles, 2001, p. 6381.

(14) According to orientation dictated by the Resolution n° 40/34, of November 29, 1985 of the UN General Assembly, that established the Declaration of the Fundamental Principles of Justice in Relation to the Victims of Criminality and of the Victims of the Abuse of Power.