bankruptcy and tort; two apparently distinct branches of law, but, in fact, some technical and theoretical issues arise from their interaction. these include, among others, the boundaries between personal rights of the victim to damages, exclusively allocated to the bankrupt, and the financial damages , which belong to the creditors ; the problems resulting from the chronological order of the b...

Professional decision making in forensic clinical practice may have lifelong consequences for offenders. Although information on moral development is important for prediction of reoffending and referral to adequate treatment, conclusions regarding moral development are still largely based on unstructured clinical judgment instead of assessment instruments. For this study, the authors examined t...

In the wake of a sexual assault, a victim is faced with sensitive questions, grueling examinations, and life-altering decisions. To assist victims in dealing with such issues, many communities make sexual assault crisis counselors available. These counselors act as support persons for the victim as he or she deals with police, doctors, prosecutors, friends, and family. Because these counselors ...

Upon encountering victim resistance during the commission of a sexual assault, an offender makes a decision as to how to react to the resistance via the use of varying degrees of coercive or noncoercive tactics. Exhaustive chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analyses were performed on a sample of 369 criminal events to detect the significant situational and crime-specific factor...

One of the puzzling phenomena in philanthropy is that people can show strong compassion for identified individual victims but remain unmoved by catastrophes that affect large numbers of victims. Two prominent findings in research on charitable giving reflect this idiosyncrasy: The (1) identified victim and (2) victim number effects. The first of these suggests that identifying victims increases...

Title of Thesis: Using Procedural Justice to Explore the Relationship between Victim Satisfaction with Police and Victim Participation in Prosecution Sarah Jessica Greenman, Master of Arts, 2010 Thesis Directed by: Associate Professor Laura Dugan, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice This thesis uses procedural justice to explore the relationship between victim satisfaction with the p...

The present study investigates victim sexual orientation in a sample of 641 violent crime victims seeking emergency medical treatment at a public-sector hospital. Victim sexual orientation was examined as it: (a) varies by type of violent crime and demographic characteristics, (b) directly relates to psychological symptoms, and (c) moderates the relationship between victim and crime characteris...