Crimes And Victims
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Support services available for the perpetrators of crime and the victims? (Directory of crime victim services)There are a numerous programs in Florida to help victims in the time of need. To name some of them and what they do we will start with the children's home society of Florida child protection team. Children's home society helps the victims of child physical abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and the survivors of homicide. Peace river center helps adults molested as children, child physical abuse, and domestic violence, the type of agency peace river center is a rape crisis agency. Palm beach county division of victim services, West County gives services for adult sexual assault, aggravated battery, arson, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, DUI/DWI crashes, elder abuse, gang violence, human trafficking, robbery, stalking, survivors of homicide, terrorism, and victims with disabilities. There is even a website for the Palm Beach County Division and it is http://www.pbcgov.com/pubsafety/victim/ this is to show you there is countless organizations that help the victims that want help.
There are also shelters that assist in helping those who are in need. Hope Family services, shelters domestic violence victims. Salvare dawn center helps shelter adult sexual assault victims, adults molested as children victims, child abuse and sexual abuse victims, domestic violence victims, and elder abuse victims. Flagler ecumenical social service center inc, provides shelters for the victims of adult sexual assault, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse. Religious community services victims of domestic violence. There is a lot of help out there even for the victims that feel there is nothing that can help them.
Effects of crime, on society, and the Criminal Justice system. There is an audio for this part and how it talks about the crime rate going down in areas that have crime watch. The audio says
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