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    do great jobs in fishing out deeper reasons than meet the eye why victims of sex crimes may fail to report the incident. However, what is not regularly seen are works opining which of these two class of factors have the more effect i.e. either that of the justice system/bodies of authority or societal influences and hence which of these categories of crime when tackled would have a bigger impact in the fight against silence of victims of sex crimes. Though seemingly of general standing, these works

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    Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing for Victims of Human Trafficking Human trafficking, commonly known as modern day slavery, is a secretive crime that has generated billions of dollars worldwide and currently enslaves more than twice the total number of people involved in the 350-year African Slave Trade (Bates & Soodalter, 2009 cited in Richards, 2014). Approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders and 14,500 to 17,500 of those individuals are being trafficked within

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    destroy their victims faith. Brainwashing has often been used to control and alter people's religious and political convictions. Their loving attitude help to make tricky and questionable statements sound convincing. When victims are held captive they are forced to listen to lectures on the theories and ideals of their captures. According to Hyde, faith is dangerous because it robs an individual of control over his/her own mind (Hyde "Brainwashing" 5). In doing so, it forces victims to

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    that is ”What about the Victims of North America conquerization and slavation?” Our understanding of early history doesnt raise our understandig of what about the suffering of our earliest ancicetors. The early English Americans exploresrs who were here before us; like the spanish or the french exploited for their own gain. Our violating or mistreatmeant of Early Native americans.History doesnt show with ther victims, the dark side of a society where

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    providing services for the victims of the crimes. Although the main focus on the criminal justice system is to arrest, prosecute and rehabilitate the criminal, many forget to focus on the victim. The National Organization for Victims Assistance was found in 1975 and is the oldest national group providing assistance to victims of crime and crisis. The Law enforcement community needs to ensure the safety of the victim before, during, and after a conviction. Many times the victims of crimes are forgotten

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    and Its Victims Human trafficking is a worldwide problem and can happen anywhere, to anyone, and at any time. Human trafficking is known as “modern day slavery”. In this world, there are two types of human trafficking: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Because human traffickers mostly target teenagers and young children, friends and families are terrified to think that their loved ones can be taken at any moment. It is devastating to find out if a loved one has been, or is, a victim of human

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    The article, “Who Blames the Victim” by Laura Niemi and Liane Young, talks about a study regarding perception of victims. The main question that the study was trying to determine was, “what determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime?” It was determined that the main factor behind victim perception lies in a person's moral values. The findings concluded that if a person had individualizing values, meaning people who believe in promoting the care of others and in fairness

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    trafficking will be addressed by the social impact and statistics in the United States, the Victims Protection Act of 2000, the human facts for human trafficking, as well as the overall importance of mental health services after dealing with such a traumatic ordeal. Women and children are recruited by pimps and peers appearing to be friends in malls, schools, at bus stops or as runaways on the street. Once victims are befriended, they take the

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    Is Restorative Justice a Viable Alternative for Victims? The current criminal justice system is flawed. There is no way around that. There are too many inconsistencies with how things are handled. Wrongful convictions, death row exonerations, and abuse of power are just a few of the troubling points I can speak about. Reforms and changes in policy can only go so far. A new alternative approach to dealing with criminal behavior has emerged however. This new approach is called restorative justice

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    Most if not all the characters in Of Mice and Men can be seen as victims in one way or another discuss “Of Mice and Men” was set in the Great Depression which could make every one in the book a victim, whatever their circumstance. Most people didn’t have a job and those who were employed were working in terrible conditions; they were victims of an employment system which gave no rights to the workers. Job insecurity meant that workers were forced to take low pay and the mass of unemployed

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