The Evolution of International Victimology and its Current Status in the World Today

• Dussich, John P.J. ^[1]
  1. [1] California State University, Fresno

     California State University, Fresno

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Revista de Victimología, ISSN-e 2385-779X, Nº. 1, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Revista de Victimologia / Journal of Victimology), págs. 37-81
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Over the last seventy eight years, the creation of the victimology concepts, the growth of victims’ rights laws, the expansion of victim assistance programs, the deepening and spreading of victim focused education and training, and the sophistication of victimological research has created a dynamic synergy that has changed the way victims are treated in a large proportion of the nations, rallying around the principles of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power. Victimology today is the product of dynamic cultural changes. The evolution of victimology is immersed in traditional roots, which involved beliefs, values, languages, laws, research, organizations, events, institutions, and, above all, pioneers, as the main influences that formed the early concepts of the victim, the new discipline of victimology, the dynamic movement of victims’ rights, and the innovative practices of victim assistance. All these parts matured into the victimology we have today. Victimology continues to be the sustaining resource for the full implementation of the all the victim related United Nations’ instruments, victims’ rights laws, and victim assistance programs. One day soon there will be an UN instrument that will address prevention, rights and remedies to restore all victims.