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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the types of victim assistance programs that exist to help victims of violent crimes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the worst. The victims of violent crimes, in particular, suffer from both physical and psychological scars. These scars can result in tremendous loss both in the personal lives
of these victims and in their work lives. One way of alleviating at least part of that suffering is through victim assistance programs. These programs vary from those
helping with counseling to those that compensate the victim for the problems that they have endured. In a day when it seems that everyone is claiming victim status and receiving
monetary awards for that status, it is important to distinguish between victim assistance as it pertains to aiding victims of violent crimes and victim compensation as it pertains to doling
out money is spurious lawsuits involving everything from someone stumping their toe on anothers lawn to someone burning themselves with hot coffee and suing the restaurant. There are also victim
compensation programs for unscrupulous acts perpetrated by ones own lawyer and for nurses and other medical professionals that contract diseases as a result of mandatory vaccinations. As worthy as
such types of victims compensation may be, they are very distinct from victims assistance as it is geared to deal with the victims of violent crime. Victim assistance is something
that has been gaining more emphasisi in only the last few decades. The criminal justice system for too long only concentrated on justice from a "adversarial, offender-oriented" perspective (van
Wormer, 2009). Today, however, we are approaching crime more and more frequently from the perspective of the victim as well. One very important component of victim assistance programs
is counseling. Rape victims, in particular, can benefit from counseling. So too, however, can other victims of violent crime. Other very valuable forms of victim assistance is
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