Awareness of victimization and request for help:

Monzani, Marco

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“…In recent years, victims are becoming progressively better organized and recognized and have attracted the attention of society and of public opinion, as well as that of institutions, achieving great results (Monzani 2013b).…”

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“…To be able to implement these networks of solidarity and support for the victims of abuse, it is necessary to have an adequate allocation of funds from the government (maybe using part of the assets seized from the convicted perpetrators of the abuse), otherwise the law, even though excellent, risks becoming meaningless, representing nothing more than a declaration of intent. If this happens, future victims, seeing the failure to provide the requested help to the previous victims, will tend to go back to the practice of not reporting the abuse suffered, thus provoking a regrettable and painful re-victimization, not to mention an undesirable return to the past (Monzani 2013b).…”

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The Circular Model of Victimization and Teamwork Within the Italian Anti-Violence Centers: A General Survey

Monzani

2020

Int. ann. criminol.

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A correct understanding of the dynamics and mechanisms that make it possible for a woman to become a victim of intra-family violence allows the necessary measures to be taken so that she can escape from the situation of victimization. Emilio C. Viano, President of the International Society of Criminology, defines the victim of an abuse as “any subject injured or that has suffered wrongdoing on the part of others, who perceives herself to be a victim, who shares the experience with others looking for help, assistance and compensation, who is recognized as a victim and who presumably is being helped by public, private or collective agencies/structures”. Before the birth of Anti-Violence Centers it was believed that the awareness of being a victim was the necessary condition for a woman to ask for help. Experience has shown that, in reality, it is the request for help that allows her to begin a process of awareness together with the operators in the Anti-Violence Centers. This reflection has led to the creation of a theoretical model called “The Circular Model of Victimization”. The aim of the research, and which is presented here, was to verify whether the Italian Anti-Violence Centers recognize the Circular Model in the daily operational reality, and thus to ascertain whether this model can be considered a real empirical model, as well as a theoretical explanatory model. In conclusion, the revisited Circular Model of Victimization will be presented, in which it is assumed that the way out of the circuit of violence passes from a first moment of perception of victimization to arrive at a real awareness of the same.

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confidence: 99%