VIKTIMIZACIJA KAO OBLIK UGROŽAVANJA INTEGRITETA LIČNOSTI
VICTIMIZATION AS A FORM OF THREAT TO PERSONAL INTEGRITY

Summary/Abstract: Victimization is a complex process in which a person becomes a victim of various forms of threat to personal integrity. Threatening can manifest itself through acts of violence (physical, psychological), discrimination, and other forms of psychophysical illegal activities, including acts of a criminal offense. Personal integrity implies the integrity and dignity of a person, which is manifested through all forms of human freedom, security and the right to protection from forms of threat to personality and property.Acts of victimization directly or indirectly attack integrity, violating the sense of security, self-respect, and control over one's own life. The consequences of victimization can be numerous, from the initial ones (trauma, anxiety, depression), to severe psycho-physical consequences. The paper will present theoretical aspects of victimization, as well as current results of numerous research on the subject in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. The cause-and-effect characteristics of victimization will be particularly problematized and connected in terms of mutual conditionality, interdependence of various forms of victimization that contribute to the threat to human values.

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