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.