Discuss the effects and cost of crime on its victims and describe victimization theories

Discuss the effects and cost of crime on its victims and describe victimization theories

Introduction

The strain of victimization makes an immense and a highly profound impact which at many times result in a devastating one on the life along with the life of the loved ones of the crime victims. The statement can also adjust the view of the whole universe as just a place nothing more than that and leave the victims behind with their feelings of difficulties and responses which they may not understand straightforwardly. In this regard it is essential for the victim professional or an assistant to make them understand several ways of understanding that crime and how it can affect victims by all means such as; physically, morally, emotionally, spiritually as well as financially. Any debate on the topic of effects and cost of crime on its victims can be general in possibility. The following discussed and mentioned information in the same regard obtained in order to help the victim assistance professionals, so that they become responsive of the common reactions that are experienced by the victims. Moreover, the below mentioned details should be used as a general guidelines so that they can provide references and trends to cater supplementary resources.

Discussion

The fact can not be denied that all of the crimes strict an immense and devastated troll on the society as a whole, which includes both the government as well as the private sectors along with its victims. There are two directions and ways of calculating the actual cost of crime which includes:

The added dollar amount which can be obtained by calculating all of the property losses, cost of medical invoices along with productivity losses and a less amount which was not easily quantifiable because such amounts takes the forms of pains, risk of deaths along with emotional trauma from victimization.

Moreover, an estimate of total social resources that have been drained has been indecisive. It's because that the previous studies have been proficient to estimate some of the cost of short term which was attendant on victimization but on the other hand the estimations on the cost of long term are curtailed. The study which was used here in discussing this direction is eventually adjoins in the costs of the long term and the intangibles caused by the pain, jeopardy of death and other miseries.

Victimization Numbers

In order to count the number of victim of crimes the researches of the field of criminology have used the data and the reports which were released and provided by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports along with the National Criminal Victimization Survey (NCVS), their researches were also being incremented by the data of nationally surveys o the representatives. However, mostly there were only street crimes and domestic crimes were getting into noticed and counted as of their calculated costs (Siegel, 2006).

In an addition to it, the new calculations on calculating the cost of crimes produced and estimation ...