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Bibliographic Citation	Social Work & Society, Volume 5, Number 2 (2007-12-30)
Title	Victim Support in a Changing Welfare State (eng)
Author	Kerstin Svensson
Language	eng
Abstract	This article discusses how new kinds of individual needs develop parallel to the changes in the welfare state. From a study of Victim Service in Sweden it is shown how this organisation has grown parallel to the changes in the welfare state. In the empirical material it is also shown that the need of support often comes from secondary victimisation. Those who are helped by Victim Support are often people with loose bonds to society and people of low class. As victims they can get help from Victim Support, but the need derives from lacking service in the welfare state. NGOs has replaced organisations in the public sector at the same time as the neo-liberal conception of crime, threats and risk has replaced the social democratic ideas of social security.
Subject	crime victim, penal state, secondary victimisation, victim support, welfare state
Classified Subjects	ddc: Social Science (300)
DDC	300
Rights	DPPL
URN	urn:nbn:de:0009-11-12889
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BibTeX

@Article{Reimer:2006,
  author  = "Peter Reimer", 
  title   = "Kurzanleitung",
  journal = "Das Testjournal",
  number  = "2",
  year    = "2006"
}