Mass Violence and Victim Services

This assignment delves into the consequences of mass violence events, focusing on the support systems provided to victims. It examines various federal programs, including the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and its Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP), which offer aid in emergencies and aftermaths of such tragedies. The study analyzes historical examples like the Pulse nightclub shooting and provides resources for further understanding.

Hate Crime

INTRODUCTION
A victim of hate crime is the person who suffers psychological, physical, emotional injury or
financial loss because of crime like violent attacks, sexual assault, robbery and family violence in
the reaction of hate. It is also the victimization happening for victims within the criminal justice
system.
To Rogan, Interest in needs of victim of crime is not an old phenomena (2006a). According to
Heffernan and Woods (2007), victim supports organizations, new legislation and better victim
focused approach were established due to increase in awareness. Nowadays more political and
professional attention are diverted towards victims of crime (McGovern, 2002).
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Crimes of hatred and prejudice towards individuals thought to "appear as something else"
somehow, regardless of whether that be race, religion, sexuality, incapacity or even politically,
have been a tragic certainty of social history around the world. Be that as it may, the term 'hate
crime' did not so much enter western vocabulary until the late 1980s, turning into a method for
portraying and understanding racial savagery that was happening in both America and Britain at
the time (especially, the murder of Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993).
In 1970's and 1980's, FBI investigated increased awareness about victims after the civil rights
movement. In 1972, FBI established the Behavioral Science Unit to explore the connections
among the victims, offenders, and group dynamics in society.
A training center was established for the police officers to get the training at the FBI
headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. The police officers started to discern the relationship
between victims and offenders during the training at the training center at Virginia.
The parents of deceased children also established organizations like Mothers Against Drunk
Drivers (MADD) and Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) to investigate the crimes.
People are sometimes vulnerable to abuse, due to hate, by members of society like family
members, tutors, clergy members, or trainers. Hate crime is a serious crime which may have
short term and long term impact on the lives of the victims. Most of the people don't complain as
offenders often threaten them for severe punishment.
There is a sharp increase in the number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales
after the EU referendum. In July 2016, police recorded a 41% increase in the hate crimes as

compared to the last year. Hate crimes for the July to September quarter rose from 10,793 to
14,295 in 2015
In 2008, 3.3 million cases were reported for hate crime in USA, 9% of sexual abuse cases, 16%
of physical abuse cases, 7% of emotional abuse cases and 71% of child neglect cases (Troiano
2011).
Hate Crime as Physical Abuse
Physical abuse is an injury of all levels from bruiser to death as a result from parents, or from
any adult responsible for the child's comfort (Lawler and Talbot 2012). It may result in response
to hate crimes. In 1800's, it was commonly observed with children who work on building
railways. Many people confront hate crimes and would die of hard labor and lethal chemicals or
sometimes due to over work (Lawler and Talbot 2012).
Emotional Abuse
Psychological or emotional abuse is the parents' behaviour which may degrade a child or may
affect emotional development (Lawler and Talbot 2012). It's not always the behaviour or
degrading the child, but isolation which may spoil her emotional development. Lack of parents'
love, support and guidance is also considered as emotional abuse (Troiano 2011).
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse is the worst abuse which affect the physical and mental development badly and
cause serious issues (Lawler and Talbot 2012). It includes rape, prostitution, molestation, incest,
child pornography and some other forms of sexual pleasures. It causes severe distress and
anxiety in the child who is abused (Lawler and Talbot 2012) (Troiano 2011).
Neglect
Sometimes hate crime arises due to the absence of care which may be physical neglect,
emotional neglect, medical neglect, and educational neglect, rather than direct negligence
(Lawler and Talbot 2012). If a child is not given enough food, basic amenities, clean and safe
water, then it may be the cause of hate crime (Lawler and Talbot 2012).
Effects of Hate Abuse
The impacts of hate crime may be short term and long term. Short term impacts on kids include
bedwetting, thumb sucking and speech impediment (Kinard 1982). Such children look nervous,

sad and aggressive at times (Kinard 1982). Some people who are victim of hate crime, are afraid
of darkness, some have headache and some suffer from insomnia etc. (Troiano 2011). The hate
crime has worst impacts in adolescence and adulthood where sometimes they face family issues
(Troiano 2011).
Hate crimes sometimes stop the people to have sexual relationships in their adulthood and they
are scared of sex throughout their life. They don't like touching and intimacy sometimes and
sometimes they become child abuser (Kinard 1982) (Troiano 2011).
The mental and intellectual development of victims is slower than normal people. Therefore,
they depict poor performance in studies and in professional life.
Factors of Hate crime
Those people do hate crimes who are from:
 Families with violence or domestic violence
 Community violence
 Physical or mentally retarded people
 Low income families
 Chronic illness
 Such people feel lonely in their life (Troiano 2011) (Lawler and Talbot 2012).
Victimology
Gathering victim reports or hate crimes is mishandled, is regularly hard as first there must be
parental authorization and most damaging guardians don't wish to permit their youngster to stand
up to the group against the battering as Kinard expressed while attempting to finish his study on
manhandled kids (Kinard 1982) (Troiano 2011) (Lawler and Talbot 2012). With respect to said
most victims of tyke sex manhandle don't stand up for the blame and disgrace they have endured
and the lawful system to getting remuneration for their mishandle and approving that the
manhandle really happened is a mind boggling method which puts much weight on the tyke
(Lawler and Talbot 2012) (Troiano 2011). As indicated by Troiano 10% of youngster sexual
manhandle cases include a more unusual as a culprit which makes discovering equity and getting
the kid to stand up about the mishandle they endured considerably harder as the abuser is an
obscure element.
Laws and Legislations
In 1960's, National Opinion Research Center of University of Chicago performed the first victim
crime survey that estimated the reported and non-reported crimes.

In 1970, imbalance rights of offender and crime victims were in favor of criminal offender
(United States Congress, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1972).
Before 1980's, crime victims did not have the right to divulge court proceedings in public (The
National Center for Victims of Crime, 1999).
In 1999, more than 29 million people fell victims to crime and this number is increasing day by
day. It leads the government to take active stance to combat the issue by making right legislation
for the crime. New laws for the crime has been enacted on state as well as on federal levels.
Trends in criminal victimization after some time can give valuable experiences by arranging
yearly information into a more extensive setting.
To evaluate these patterns, criminologists depend on the two national wellsprings of crime
information: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR)
and the
Authority of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Review (NCVS). These two
measures fluctuate in the way they gather crime information with the most significant distinction
being the source whereupon each depends. The UCR measures crimes known to neighborhood
and state law implementation and incorporates victims of any age and also non-singular victims
(for example, business elements). The NCVS depends on victim reports and depends on a
substantial, broadly illustrative family unit based specimen that assembles victimization data
from people age 12 and more seasoned. The NCVS gives an integral measure to the UCR and
offers critical bits of knowledge into what criminologists call the "dull figure of crime," or
crimes that go unreported. As both the UCR and NCVS have been gathered for quite a long time,
these two sources give the vital information to better comprehend crime patterns in the United
States. Slant information from both sources demonstrate that crime has diminished considerably,
especially in contrast with crime rates from the 80s. UCR and NCVS information from the 2000s
likewise keep on demonstrating a descending pattern, albeit infrequent fluctuations happen for a
few crimes, incorporating a current uptick in rough crime starting in 2011 and proceeding into
2012.
The FBI's UCR information additionally show a decay after some time. The rate of deadly and
non-lethal savage crime known to law requirement in 1993 was 747.1 for every 100,000 people.
By 2012, rates had declined to a low of 386.9 for each 100,000.
• Historically, guys have higher rates of brutal victimization contrasted with females. For
instance, in 1993 the rate of brutal victimization for guys detailed through the NCVS was 96.9
for every 1,000 people age 12 or more established, while the rate detailed by females was 63.7
for each 1,000 people age 12 or more established.
In 2012, the rates of savage victimization were 29.1 per 1,000 people age 12 or more established
for guys and 23.3 per 1,000 people age 12 or more established for females.

• The rate of victims of savage crimes who announced through the NCVS that they endured a
damage remained moderately stable from 1993 to 2012, extending from 26 percent in 1992 to 23
percent in 2012.
• In 2012, 44.2 percent of every single vicious victimization were accounted for to police as
indicated by the NCVS. Over the previous 10 years, this rate has remained decently stable.
• Data from the UCR show the rate of murder and non-careless homicide known to law
requirement in 1993 was 9.5 for every 100,000 people. This rate declined and after that remained
genuinely unfaltering through the 2000s preceding achieving a low rate of 4.7 for every 100,000
people in 2012. The rate of murder and non-careless homicide stayed stable between 2011 and
2012, at 4.7 for every 100,000 people for both years.
• The quantity of occurrences alluded to, differently, as "Dynamic Shooter Events," "mass
murder," and "Dynamic Shooter Cases" has expanded as of late. The consideration of these
fatalities in manslaughter measurements can significantly influence rates at the city level yet not
at the national level, on the grounds that these uncommon occasions make up a little rate of the
national murder rate.
Rape
• The rate of rape/sexual ambush announced by victims through the NCVS has declined over the
most recent 10 years, going from 150 for each 100,000 people age 12 or more established in
2002 to 90 for each 100,000 people age 12 or more established in 2011. A 44.4 percent
expansion in the vicinity of 2011 and 2012 is seen with 130 for each 100,000 people age 12 or
more established detailing rape/sexual attack to the NCVS in 2012.
• Using an alternate definition, the FBI's UCR information report the rate of persuasive rapes
known to law authorization was 33.1 for every 100,000 people in 2002 and down to 26.9 for
every 100,000 people in 2012.
• Rape and sexual strike crimes are trying to gather under both the NCVS and UCR due to the
diverse systems and definitions used.
Moreover, we realize that rape and sexual attack are underreported in view of the shame related
with these sorts of victimization. As indicated by the NCVS in 2012, just 28 percent of the
respondents who were classified as victims of rape or sexual attack detailed their victimization to
the police.11 Moreover, it is impractical to know the quantity of victims who are reviewed as a
feature of the NCVS who pick not to recognize as a victim of rape or sexual assault.
• A 2013 National Research Council Report recommends that the frequency of rape and sexual
ambush has been significantly undercounted by the NCVS due to some extent to its part as an
omnibus overview intended to give yearly gauges and pattern information for an assortment of
savage what's more, property crimes.

Links
Links to relevant criminal justice literature
Resettlement provision for adult offenders: Accommodation and education, training and
employment. HMI Prisons/HMI Probation, September 2014.
Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/inspections/adultresettlementthematic
Achieving Best Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Cases - A Joint Inspection,
HMCPSI and HMIC, December 2014. Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/2014/12/
CJJI_ABE_Dec14_rpt.pdf
Girls in the Criminal Justice System. HMI Probation, CSSIW, Care Quality
Commission, HMIC, HMI Prisons, Ofsted, HMI Probation, December 2014.
Available from: www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/wpcontent/uploads/sites/
5/2014/12/Girls-in-the-Criminal-Justice-System.pdf
The contribution of Youth Offending Teams to the work of the Troubled
Families Programme in England. HMI Probation, Care Quality Commission,
HMIC, Ofsted, HMI Probation, January 2015. Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/Troubled-Families1.pdf
Investigation and prosecution of fatal road traffic incidents. HMCPSI and
HMIC, February 2015. Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/inspections/investigation-prosecutionfatal-road-traffic-
incidents
The treatment of offenders with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system - phase two in
custody and the community. A joint inspection by HMI Probation and HMI Prisons, March
2015. Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/inspections/learningdisabilitiesphase2/

Joint Review of Disability Hate Crime, HMCPSI, HMIC and HMI Probation,
May 2015. Available from:
www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/inspections/joint-review-of-disability-hatecrime
Conclusion
Youngsters are the unheard victims of hate crime among our general public. A large portion of
the intolerable long and here and now manhandle that happens to these kids obstructs passionate
improvement up into adulthood and basically destroy their lives. As the kids dread being rejected
by their families and society they don't stand in opposition to their abuser and if the youngsters
ever do they don't tell the points of interest of the manhandle they endured exact ones. All the
more should be done to secure these youngsters in the one place they ought to dependably feel
safe when it comes to their gender, race, disability, sexual preferecnes or orientation.
Press Release
Hate Crime in UK
A creative and capable hate crime display and set of blurbs including loads of volunteers from
over the North West has now been propelled by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Race Hate
Awareness and Prevention (RHAP) extend based at Preston and Western Lancashire Racial
Equality Council created a presentation as a national free asset for associations needing to bring
issues to light around the effect of hate crimes and additionally a progression of hate crime
blurbs to urge detailing and to go about as an obstacle to carrying out such crimes. Hate crimes
includes focusing on somebody on account of their sexual introduction, transgender personality,
incapacity race or religion and conviction.
Laura Geraghty from RHAP said "the show investigates the effect of hate crimes on the lives of
people utilizing genuine contextual analyses and additionally taking a gander at Criminal Justice
associations reactions to it. We are so appreciative for the assorted scope of volunteers all
surrendering their available time to be required in this show".

Sharky and Laura who ended up plainly required with the display in the wake of seeing a
demand for volunteers said 'It's a subject that is near both of our souls, as we've both been
subjected to different types of manhandle because of the way we look and the way we experience
our lives. I myself was assaulted just a couple of months before Sophie Lancaster was killed and,
resounding I speculate the sentiments of most of the option group, it hit hard as there was a solid
hidden sentiment 'It could have effectively been me.' Which is the reason we keep on supporting
the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and feel it important to help advance this Hate Crime
Exhibition with the expectation that the general population may pay heed and let individuals
experience their lives in peace, paying little mind to race, religion, sex, sexual introduction or
way of life.'
The presentation included people and gatherings from Lancashire Care Trust, Sophie Lancaster
Foundation, Disability gatherings and Lancashire Constabulary among numerous others.
Clive Taylor Equality and Diversity Lead, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust said 'Staff at
the Trust needed to be required in the venture to bolster an incredible activity that advances
messages about detailing crime in light of segregation. For us the venture reflects a portion of the
work we do in the Trust to guarantee that patients can utilize, and staff can work inside,
administrations that are available and inviting to all aware of their own differences.
The notices highlight His Honor Judge Russell, Recorder for Preston and Lancashire
Constabulary. The greater part of the material can be seen here
Administrator Paul Giannasi who deals with a cross-government hate crime program said
"Government and the Association of Chief Police Officers are carried out to decreasing the
mischief brought about by hate crime. We have worked with this little group to create assets that
we will share through our devoted hate crime site, True Vision. We think the presentation and
publications are profitable broadly and will permit associations all through the UK to share the
advantages of this phenomenal activity. Genuine Vision can be seen at www.report-it.org.uk",
email [e-mail] "
The show is accessible for associations to contract to supplement their hate crime mindfulness
crusades which can be reserved by messaging [e-mail]
Note to Newsdesk
The Race Hate Awareness and Prevention (RHAP) benefit underpins victims of prejudice
crosswise over Lancashire
The Ministry of Justice saw their past hostile to bigotry show and saw the engagement and
organization as great practice. They then cooperated to deliver the more extensive hate crime
presentation for national associations
.

Hate Crime in USA
Today, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), some portion of the U.S. Bureau of Justice's
Office of Justice Programs, reported a $8,466,970 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance
Program (AEAP) allow to help victims of the June 2016 mass shooting at Pulse club in Orlando,
Florida. OVC will grant the award tomorrow to the Florida Office of the Attorney General.
"This financing will give critical support to the victims, their friends and family and groups who
were influenced by a year ago's overwhelming assault on Pulse dance club," said Attorney
General Jeff Sessions. "We keep on mourning the individuals who were taken from us that
horrendous day, and we respect the strength of the considerable city of Orlando. With this allow,
we reaffirm the Justice Department's dedication to the general population of Orlando, the groups
of the victims and all who are aiding those influenced by this terrible crime."
"OVC is carried out to helping the recuperation, mending and equity for all victims of crime and
this honor will give truly necessary support, sincerely and monetarily, as they keep on healing,"
said Acting OVC Director Marilyn McCoy Roberts. "This honor will repay victim
administrations costs for operation of the Family Assistance Center in the prompt outcome of the
shooting, and guarantee that victims, witnesses and specialists on call get important
administrations to help them alter in the consequence of savagery, start the recuperating
procedure and adapt to plausible re-injury."
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, 29, entered Pulse dance club with an attack rifle and handgun,
opening discharge on club supporters while holding them prisoner. Amid the assault, Mateen
executed 49 individuals and harmed more than 50 others, making it the deadliest mass shooting
in U. S. history. Mateen was in the long run murdered amid a shootout with police.
Victim administrations financing is granted to and dispersed by the Florida Office of the
Attorney General's Department of Legal Affairs.
In 1995, after the Oklahoma City shelling, Congress approved OVC to set aside and control up to
$50 million yearly from the Crime Victims Fund for the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve Fund
to help victims in exceptional conditions. Taking after a demonstration of psychological
oppression or mass viciousness, wards can apply for an AEAP allow grant for emergency
reaction, criminal equity bolster, crime victim remuneration and preparing and specialized help
costs. OVC additionally gave AEAP assets and help taking after the underneath mass savagery
episodes:
in, San Bernardino, California (2015); Roseburg, Oregon (2015); Charleston, South Carolina
(2015); Marysville, Washington (2014); Boston, Massachusetts (2013); Newtown, Connecticut
(2012); Oak Creek, Wisconsin (2012); Aurora, Colorado (2012); Tucson, Arizona (2011);
Binghamton, New York (2009); at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2007);
and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety for the benefit of the Red Lake Nation (2005).

For more data on the AEAP, please visit http://ojp.gov/ovc/AEAP/index.html
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), headed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Alan R.
Hanson, gives government administration in building up the country's ability to avoid and
control crime, direct equity and help victims. OJP has six parts: the Bureau of Justice Assistance;
the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime and the Office of Sex Offender
Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking.

References:
 Lynn Langton, Michael Planty, and Jennifer Truman, Criminal Victimization, 2012,
(Washington,DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2013),
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 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Rates of Violent Victimizations, 1993−2012, generated using
the NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool, accessed August 7, 2014,
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=nvat
 Federal Bureau of Investigation,“Crime—National or State Level Data with One
Variable,” Uniform Reporting Statistics, (U.S. Department of Justice, 2010), retrieved
through tool, accessed August 7, 2014,
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the NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool, accessed August 7, 2014,
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=nvat