Title
Victimity: Entering the criminal justice system
Date of this Version
2009
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Extract:
Mendelsohn (1963) describes victimity as being the opposite of criminality. Criminality refers to the state, quality, or fact of being criminal. Therefore, victimity refers to the state, quality or fact of being a victim. The purpose of this chapter is to describe what this means in an applied sense - what victimity involves as victims enter the criminal justice system and a record of evidence is created.
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Publication Details
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Turvey, B. E. (2009). Victimity: Entering the criminal justice system. In B. E. Turvey & W. Petherick (Eds.), Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (pp. 33-71). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.
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