Concept of Vicarious Victimization as it Relates to Terrorism

Concept of Vicarious Victimization as it Relates to Terrorism
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Concept of Vicarious Victimization as it Relates to Terrorism
Vicarious victimization constitutes a phenomenon via which individuals experience trauma invoked by another person or persons’ victimization. It is the process that emanates from repeated empathetic engagement with people who experienced primary victimization. It happens within the awareness context of almost any traumatic event, including criminal victimization to terrorist acts or war. Vicarious victimization relates to emotional demands related to hearing terrorism survivors’ traumatic experiences or directly seeing terrorism acts via media stories, images, and other information sources. It also describes the trauma individuals potentially suffer due to images, oral histories, and media circulating the world, mainly related t...