Impacts of crime on the victims

short term and long term effects on victims of crime?

short term:insomnia, inability to concentrate, anti social behaviour, loss of appetite

long term:insomnia, inability to concentrate, anti social behaviour, loss of appetite, as well as psychological trauma causing unusual behaviour such as aggression, withdrawal, fear of developing close relationships with others.





Tuesday may 4th abbootsford

a twelve year old boy was held at knife point and forced to drive a get a way vehicle for a man who committed a robbery. although the boy told the thief that he was too young to drive, the robber forced him by holding a knife to his neck. when the truck had to stop at a train crossing police surrounded it and arrested the man charging him with kidnapping, theft, and weapon possession among other things.

short term:fear and excitement and worried that his father might be angry

long term:fear of knives, strangers, of getting a drivers licence

On The Sidewalk Bleeding
In this story the main character belongs to a gang and wears gang colours. He goes to buy some cigarettes and gets stabbed by an opposing gang member he tries to take off the gang jacket so he does not die as just another gang member. His girlfriend is devastated by his death.

To mitigate the effects of crime on both the victim and the families, in a perfect world there would be no crime. However we don't live in a perfect world, so what do we do? Hire more law enforcement officers, with this the visible presence alone may cause people to be afraid to commit a crime, because of fear of being caught, plus with more law enforcement officers more area can be covered and the respond time for an officer to reach a crime scene would decrease giving the perp less chance to escape.