Beyond the Cycle and the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to formally introduce the field of Developmental and Life Course Victimology and its areas of application, understood as a transdisciplinary area within Victimology to study and conceive, in the first instance, victimization as an active and dynamic process with ecological, intersectional, and transactional dimensions that allows us to account for the mechanisms of continuity and persistance (polyvictimization and/or revictimization), alternative trajectories to victimization cycles (e.g., transition to perpetration of violence), but also points of change (growth and devictimization).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Crime Patterns and Interventions
Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Child Abuse and Trauma
Publication details
- Journal / source
- IGI Global eBooks
- Pages
- 1–36
- Publication date
- 29 January 2026
- Language
- NG
- Document type
- Book chapter