Learning Objectives
- Describe the psychological effects of being victimized, and introduce the reader to the role played by mental health professionals in working with victims.
- Emphasize the multicultural and multiethnic aspects of working with victims.
- Describe the legal rights of victims.
- Recap official victimization data.
- Review homicide victimization research.
- Review rape and sexual assault victimization research.
- Review sex online solicitation.
- Address human trafficking and sexual exploitation trafficking.
- Review the psychological effects of commercial sexual exploitation of minors.