Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police academy instructors often tell recruits learning to handle sexual crimes about a woman who was severely beaten and raped. The victim was incapable of discussing the incident for a month and a half afterwards, and she could not talk about her assailant for three months. After she did describe him, the man was finally arrested...
Although that example is an extreme case, police often waver between trying to reassure assault victims and pursuing suspects. Coaxing the victim to discuss information necessary to catch assailants while keeping her calm requires time and compassion--and a lot of training...
...attacks, the University police last month set up a unit to investigate rapes, assaults, molestation and other brutal crimes. The new "Sensitive Crimes Unit" includes eight male detectives and the department's two patrolwoman. Although trained to search the scene of a crime, photograph evidence or marks on the victim and take statements, the unit's primary concern is getting medical attention for the victim, Marie L. Sullivan '79, a patrolwoman, says...
...reduce the victim's trauma, only one unit officer--of the same sex--interviews the victim. Sullivan says, "It's a delicate balance to be able to be sensitive to a person's feelings and to still elicit the information necessary to prosecute, but most women are receptive to another woman showing up. That surprised me. An equally compassionate and sensitive man will probably do as well, but he often feels uncomfortable...
...rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule may be slightly more humane than that of the Daddy he has literally beaten out of the job, but so severe...