In recent years, victimological research has turned toward the study of victims' perceptions or meanings of justice, challenging the traditional and prevailing understanding of the retributivist approach; this shift in ...

Bullying is a current phenomenon mainly inserted in the school sphere, marked by repeated aggression and no obvious motivation. It appears in the form of physical, psychological, moral or patrimonial violence. There are ...

This work presents a new method for assisting in the identification process of missing persons in several contexts, such as enforced disappearances. We apply a Bayesian technique to incorporate non-genetic variables in the ...

A qualitative explorative study with relatives of femicide victims and professionals was conducted analyzing the family background, the situation prior to the violence and the circumstances surrounding the murder of these ...

Ecological models of violence center on systems (micro, meso, and macro) surrounding personal history of violence, but few studies properly assess the effects of personal history on the likelihood of victimization. Using ...