A Global Perspective on Victims of Crime and Victim Assistance: Best Practices around the World

The book, "A Global Perspective on Victims of Crime and Victim Assistance: Best Practices around the World" is an important book that has been published at a critical time when the discipline of victimology is going through a transition. Societies have always strived to understand various facets of crime to prevent victimization and enable victim assistance measures. The suffering of the victim at the time of the commission of a crime and later during the criminal justice process requires the attention of society at large. Chapters such as, "A contemporary victimological dimension of technology: the algorithmic society and politics of legitimate victimization" underscore the challenges of artificial intelligence and technology and how they may cause new forms of victimization. The chapter, "Fear and Justice: The heart of the response to victimization" explores a new dimension of Maslow's basic hierarchy of human needs with fear, terror, and justice. The role of victim assistance is highlighted through crime prevention and proactive policing suggesting useful tools that can be adopted to protect individuals and institutions.