Title: What Are the Effects of Crime on Victims?
Headings: What Are the Effects of Crime on Victims?
What Are the Effects of Crime on Victims?
In this article, we look at the effects of crime on victims to find out the best ways to support them.
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To understand the reactions of victims to criminal justice, and to be able best to support victims, we need to know the effects of crime on victims. A victim of a crime may possibly experience many different kinds of effects: Direct costs and inconvenience due to theft of or damage to property (including time off work). The physical effects of injury through violent crime. Guilt at having become the victim of crime and feelings one could have prevented it (whether or not this was at all possible). Psychological effects such as anger, depression or fear, which, in serious cases, can cause sleeplessness, flashbacks to the offence or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Feelings of anxiety through shock that such a thing has happened and worries about revictimisation, sometimes leading to feelings of loss of trust in one’s community and in society.