Resilience-victimology-criminal justice

The scientific demarche of the authors is based on the fact that when it comes to concepts like resilience or victimology, which cannot be understood or applied without a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approach (see the conclusion reached by the authors about the possibility of apparition of a new discipline, namely legal resilience), legal sciences specialist's skills in general and of those in the field of criminal law, in particular, along with those of experts in psychology, psychiatry etc. are particularly important. The authors place the above mentioned concepts at the law-psychology-psychiatry interface and analyze them in terms of criminal justice and of the relationship of persons involved, respectively, victims of offences (juvenile and adults alike) with society and with the aggressor, both before committing the criminal act and thereafter. In addition, with respect to resilience and victimology, after it is underlined that they have no unique, generally accepted definitions, the essential points on which there is agreement from those involved in researching these fields, as well as the exchange of information and procedures performed on the border between resilience and victimology are revealed. At the same time, criminal justice is treated not so much under the retributive aspect, but more from the point of view of reparatory, restorative justice, of the means by which it contributes to the mental health of the victims, of the populations who live in traumatized societies, to repairing social trauma, to establishing the causes and to preventing victimization etc. Using strong arguments, the authors show the role that resilience and victimology have in the work of justice in general and of the criminal one in particular, concluding that this work should, after all, have as a recipient the person who suffered the consequences of the illegal act or of the traumatized family or social background.