What are the short and long term impacts on victims on crime?

When a crime occurs, many people can be damaged and affected in the process. The people who suffer the most, both immediately and in the long term are the victims of these crimes. Some short or immediate impacts of crime, depend on the crime itself. For example, a victim of a rape crime will not suffer through the same effects compared to a victim of an assault or someone who has been kidnapped. In the Law & Order episode we watched last Friday in criminology, there were many examples of some of the trauma that people who have been raped go through. The victim of the rape was faced with things such as re-victimization, change of habits and a fear of their old life. All of these things can also be associated with other types of crime, and most of the time they are. Re-victimization occurs shortly after nearly every crime, when the victim is requested to tell the detectives, officers etc. what happened to them, and a lot of time even doing this right away is extremely painful for the victims. Some long term impacts that many victims of crime face are having to change many of their habits and their lifestyle because of the fear that is associated with it. Being a victim of any crime can dramatically change someones life in many ways but the long term trauma to me seems to be what really changes and affects people the most.

Why are drug related crime rates high in B.C.

I think that drug crimes in B.C. are increasing and have been for the past few years due to many reasons. First of all, I think that there is a generally large availability rate throughout the majority of B.C. because there is many isolated towns that traffic drugs back and forth throughout the province. This leads to another point being that, possibly not all the crime related to drugs in necessarily a result of people actually doing drugs, but other activities suggesting trafficking, possession, dealing etc.In my opinion, I think our society in B.C. is also, not accepting, but not as severe and aware against the drug crimes going on throughout our province. This makes it easier for drugs to be available and hidden among us. I don't mean that the police aren't as severe towards drug crimes as they are towards other types of crime, but it is a lot easier to hide and conceal a drug operation that it is to hide a crime such as a murder or a robbery. Also, I think because in B.C. there are places like Surrey, East Hastings and Kelowna where there are high concentrations of gangs which lead to more drug related, (as well as gang related) crimes in these places. As for now, I think that drug related crimes will stay at an increasing rate because drugs themselves are essentially very popular and in my opinion, are going to stay this way for a while. I think that to decrease drug crimes in B.C. the authorities will have to try and halt as many operations throughout the province and possibly make more severe laws against some of these offenses. But because drug related crimes vary so much and there are so many of them still going on right now, I don't feel like the police will really try to do anything more to stop these increasing rates either than what they are already doing now.