state compensation to crime victims means paying money by the governmental institutions to victims or his/her families, when restitution by the offender and other financial sources is accessible. in the legal system of england, law of criminal damages includes all aspects of state compensation such as: conditions of eligibility related to victims, crimes, damages, perpetrators as well as proced...

The impact of crime on general welfare is profound. Those most directly impacted are the victims of crime. By one estimate, the combination of direct monetary losses and the costs of pain and suffering among crime victims in the United States amounts to 0.5–0.7 percent of GDP (Freeman 1996). Beyond these direct costs are substantial indirect costs associated with reducing the threat of crime. I...

School bullying can involve children in different ways, making them play different roles, among them, victims, bullies and bullyvictims. The aim of this study was to describe how bullying occurs in high social vulnerability schools of Florianópolis metropolitan area and the roles played by students in this phenomenon. Overall, 409 children and adolescents from the 3rd to 5th grades and of two p...

Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work’s ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also r...

This article examines associations between self-reported religious affiliations and official offense histories among 111 incarcerated adult male sexual offenders. Four categories of religiosity were devised according to self-reported continuities and discontinuities in life-course religious affiliations: atheists, dropouts, converts, and stayers. ANCOVAs indicated that stayers (those who mainta...

Bosnia and Herzegovina the Republic of Kosovo, as two countries that lived through events war suffered a large number different victims material losses during period, took almost identical paths in direction nation building.
 Although these have made significant progress some segments, due to their historical past, also had opposite side coin: stagnation, underdevelopment, corruption, lack...