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VICTIMOLOGY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - UNAFEI
116 VICTIMOLOGY past , PRESENT AND FUTUREJohn P. J. Dussich*I. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF VICTIMOLOGYA. The Early Roots The word victim has its roots in many ancient languages that covered a great distance from north-western Europe to the southern tip of Asia and yet had a similar linguistic pattern: victimain Latin; v h,w oh, w gin Old European; w h, w hiin Old High German; v in Old Norse; weihs in Gothic; and, vinak tiinSanskrit (Webster s 1971). VICTIMOLOGY as an academic term contains two elements: One is the Latin word Victima which translates into victim . The other is the Greek word logos which means a system of knowledge, the direction ofsomething abstract, the direction of teaching, science, and a writings about the victim appeared in many early works by such criminologists as Beccaria(1764), Lombroso (1876), Ferri (1892), Gar falo (1885), Sutherland (1924), Hentig (1948), Nagel (1949),Ellenberger (1955), Wolfgang (1958) and Schafer (1968), the concept of a science to study victims and theword VICTIMOLOGY had its origin with the early writings of Beniamin Mendelsohn (1937; 1940), theseleading to his seminal work where he actually proposed the term VICTIMOLOGY in his article A New Branchof Bio-Psycho-Social Science, VICTIMOLOGY (1956).
offering information, assessments, individual interventions, case advocacy, system advocacy, public policy and programme development. 11. “Victim Recovery” is the resumption of the same or better level of functionality as was enjoyed prior to victimization. Persons who have been victimized vary in their level of mental health and well-
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