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While in Mexico, are being developed institutions and government policies to support victims of crime , is still needed to be done in this area, the teacher said Maria del Carmen Nunez Montenegro, Faculty of Psychology of UNAM, who noted that the emotional harm experiencing a victim has different manifestations and is very difficult to identify, so that almost never considered relevant to the legal level.
“Speaking of victims, at times, is to refer to a human condition, whether for objective and, sometimes, by the perception that everyone has in their lives, so it is necessary to establish a classification of victims, in this case victims of crime . The emotional damage is a concept that psychologists do not use it as such, although it can be very clear to us because we work with emotions, it is a term most used in the legal field under characterization of moral damage, which also incorporates the decorum, dignity and heritage, “said university researcher.
He noted that natural events, accidents or criminal acts create victims, who always suffer an emotional impact that can be expressed immediately or many years later.
In the case of a criminal act, he said, any kind of aggression that affects the daily produces alertness and emotional impact is not necessarily the severity of which depends on the severity of the offense, so it is considered that the emotional damage that emerges will determined by variables such as the vulnerability of individuals with previous violent experiences, age or degree of resilience, among other things.
For example, he explained, demonstrating the impairment of the estate can be very easy and repaired with money. The problem that arises in this field is how to repair the emotional damage, especially when it is not expressed immediately to the crime, but many years later.
explains the crime victim
Maricarmen Montenegro said that to understand the victim of a crime is necessary to know the kind of violence that has been exercised against, ie, the crime victim says and vice versa. With this argument, it has managed to establish some profiles of offenders and the emotional impact that victims often report.
He noted, moreover, there is often excessive concern for the victims of crime and lost sight of the perpetrator’s rights. Besides the lack of understanding of crime and appropriate techniques to detect the emotional harm of the victim, in both cases are generated revictimized.
In Mexico, the victimology is a new study area does not have enough experts in the area, which according to the teacher Montenegro Nunez should not improvise and work with victims if there is no training to do so.
Victimology, and multidisciplinary area of expertise is closely linked to criminology. It also provides various elements of psychology to the study, as the theories that explain the behavior, cognitions, values, beliefs and social conditions that determine them, and contribute to its methods and techniques to intervene in the diagnosis of emotional harm and treatment for victims of crime.
Montenegro respect the teacher commented that “the psychologist victimology provides sufficient information to understand that crimes occur as social facts and human interactions in a particular social events, and that their values depend at least the damage done but above all who bears the fact, the perceived threat and causes of social disapproval. ”
Some of the most outstanding contributions of victimology are the result of victimization and social vulnerability, the increased awareness of this and the different types of violence that were previously invisible, such as the State, considers that the victims, the system criminal offenders are the three main sources of information to understand a crime.
Therefore, the researcher believes that those skilled in this area of knowledge “must not exceed the indifference of the criminal law by the victim, the perpetrator’s rights to deny that it will also be victimized by the criminal justice machinery, but also recognize that many times the innocent has been tagged as the alleged offender. ”
Finally, he explained that in Mexico are being developed institutions and policies to accompany victims of crime, but maintained that there needed to be done in this area. At the School of Psychology Research seminars are held waiting contribute information and knowledge to professionalise this area and that victims are treated with respect and dignity for their rights.
Disclosure Directorate of Science, UNAM
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