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Child maltreatment is a very common social problem in today’s world. There are four common types of child maltreatment such as physical abuse, sexual abuse including sex trafficking, emotional abuse, and threatened abuse or neglect. One of the most common forms of child treatment is exposing a child to sexual abuse. In cases of sexual abuse, there are mostly no eyewitness other than the child and the perpetrator, which increases the importance of the child’s testimony. It is an important issue to have a healthy forensic interview with the child in a suitable environment and by a professional staff who has been trained in this subject. In recent years in Turkey, child-friendly forensic interview rooms have been established in courthouses by the Ministry of Justice in order to conduct forensic interview with children who are victims of sexual abuse and other vulnerable groups. The forensic assessment, interview, and related aspects were explained by giving Turkey model as an example.KeywordsChild maltreatmentSexual abuseForensic interviewTurkey modelCognitive interviewForensic examination
RejaniThudalikunnilGopalanEditor
Victimology
AComprehensive Approach toForensic,
Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives
Victimology
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
Editors
Victimology
A Comprehensive Approach toForensic,
Psychosocial andLegal Perspectives
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Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Contents
1 Recent Updates on Victimology and Its Influence
on Criminal Justice System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
2 Working with Victims: Psychological Assessment of Victims
and Mental Health of Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Smriti Maini and Kalpana Raman
3 Sexual Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Aarzoo Gupta and Archana Kashyap
4 Adult Molested as Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Namitha Babu
5 Intimate Partner Violence and Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
6 Child Maltreatment and Forensic Interview Room in Turkey . . . . . . 125
Huseyin Batman and Çağatay Serkan Kaya
7 Cyberbullying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Michelle F. Wright
8 Victims of War and Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Mahak Mathur, Gargi Chauhan Mehta, and Vikas Singh Rawat
9 Trauma-Informed Psychological Supports When Natural
Disasters Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
York Williams
10 Victimization at School and Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Ashwini Deshpande Nagarhalli
11 Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact, and Action . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Sheeba Shamsudeen
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12 Crimes Against Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Afreen A. Hussain
13 Psychological Factors in Property Crimes: Theories, Traits,
and Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Dorothy Bhandari Deka
14 Elder Abuse and Victims with Disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Vaitsa Giannouli
15 Secondary Victimization of Sexually Assaulted Women . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Milica Boskovic and Gordana Misev
16 Revictimization: Towards a New Theoretical Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
17 Early Childhood Violence Exposure and Subsequent Antisocial
Behavior: Canadian Indigenous Young Offenders Case Study . . . . . 381
Claude R. Shema
18 Understanding Adolescent Behavior and Victimization of Special
Populations Through Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory . . . . . 399
York Williams
19 Working with Victims: Psychological Assessment of Victims . . . . . . . 417
Mauro Siri
20 Forensic Investigations and Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
21 Medical and Psychological Management of Victimization . . . . . . . . . 453
Nitha Thomas and Avinash G. Kamath
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Contents
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Contributors
NamithaBabu THRIVE, Wayanad, India
HuseyinBatman Sandıklı School of Applied Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe University,
Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
MilicaBoskovic Faculty of Diplomacy and Security, Belgrade, Serbia
DorothyBhandariDeka Sarvodaya Healthcare, Guwahati, India
VaitsaGiannouli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
RejaniThudalikunnilGopalan Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital,
Jaipur, India
AarzooGupta Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India
AfreenA.Hussain Forensic Psychology Division of the Central Forensic Science
Laboratory, Guwahati, India
AvinashG.Kamath Department of Psychiatry, KMC Manipal Academy of Higher
Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
ArchanaKashyap Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India
Cagatay Serkan Kaya Sandıklı School of Applied Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe
Üniversitesi, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
SmritiMaini IILM University, Gurgaon, India
MahakMathur Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India
Gargi Chauhan Mehta Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital,
Jaipur, India
Gordana Misev Center for Multidisciplinary Research and Communication,
Belgrade, Serbia
AshwiniDeshpandeNagarhalli Little Pods, Mumbai, India
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KalpanaRaman Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
VikasSinghRawat Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India
SheebaShamsudeen Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
ClaudeR.Shema Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
MauroSiri University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
NithaThomas Private Practice, Udupi, Karnataka, India
YorkWilliams West Chester University, West Chester, PA, USA
MichelleF.Wright DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
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