Intellectual disability and criminal victimisation / Carlene Wilson ...[et. al.].

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996.

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People with mental disabilities and crime -- Australia.

Victims of crimes -- Australia.

The authors' studies of intellectually disabled victims of crimes revealed that a major contributing factor was the demonstration of anger by the victim. Compared to intellectually disabled non-victims, the victims showed lower measures of interpersonal competence and higher responses to the anger inventory. The authors advocate anger management and protective behaviours training, and stress the need for policy makers to be aware of both social policy and victim behaviour when developing broad crime prevention strategies. - Publisher's website.

Cover title.

"September 1996."

Includes bibliographic references.

0642240221

0817-8542

6 pages ; 30 cm