Healing the Psychological Wounds of Criminal Victimization: Predicting Postcrime Distress and Recovery (From Victims of Crime: Problems, Policies, and Programs, V 25, P 50-68, 1990, Arthur J Lurigio, Wesley G Skogan, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-128570)

• NCJ Number: 128573
• Author(s): A J Lurigio; P A Resick
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 19 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This comprehensive review of the correlates of recovery from criminal victimization describes previctimization, victimization, and postvictimization factors that predict adjustment.

Abstract

The literature review of previous relevant research indicates that crime victims likely to adjust successfully after the crime tend to be younger, male, better educated, and employed. They also tend to be freer of pre-existing psychiatric disturbances and a history of previous criminal victimization. Successful adjusters were experiencing moderate recent or current life stressors, and they were less severely victimized, threatened, or injured during the crime. They were inclined to blame themselves behaviorally rather than characterologically for the crime, to find meaning in the incident, and to perceive themselves as coping well when compared with other crime victims. Successful adjusters were also willing to participate in the prosecution of the case and to receive the support of relatives and friends. 86 references