Vitimologia

Abstract

The victimology is a new theme in the legal framework, which seeks to present the victim in many ways and how it contributes to the commission of the offense, influencing the active agent in a conscious or unconscious, as well as repair and assistance victim, that being considered a victim who suffers direct injury or threat to the well protected by law, which said common or specific repairs. Born in the post-Second World War, victimology, had as its landmark Conference A New Horizon in Science Biopsychosocial: the Victimology, presented by the great Israeli lawyer Benjamin Mendelssohn. This closely related to criminology, from which it originated, and is also connected to other branches of knowledge such as sociology, psychology. Since this study aims to present through literature searches, the vision of the benefits of the use of victimology.