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Magnus Lindgren — Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović
INTERNATIONAL AND SERBIAN PERSPECTIVE
CRIME VICTIMS

CRIME VICTIMS
INTERNATIONAL AND SERBIAN
PERSPECTIVE

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Disclaimer: The views herein expressed are solely those of the author and contributors and do not
necessarily reflect the offi cial position of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.
Writing of this publication was supported by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, Mission to Serbia, Law Enforcement Department, Čakorska 1, 11000 Belgrade.
Authors and publication title
Magnus Lindgren and Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović,
Crime Victims: International and Serbian Perspective
Edition
first
Publisher
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Mission to Serbia,
Law Enforcement Department
Design and prepress
comma | communications design
Printing company
Original
Number of copies
500
ISBN 978-86-85207-75-4

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About the authors:
Magnus Lindgren currently works as the Secretary General of a Swedish non-profit
NGO called Safer Sweden Foundation (Stiftelsen Tryggare Sverige). Magnus is a crimi-
nologist and a former police offi cer with a PhD in Psychology from the University of
Stockholm. He was previously director of Victim Support Sweden and Chairman of
the National Organization for Relatives to Murder Victims. Th rough the years Mag-
nus has written numerous of reports, books and articles that focus on victim reactions
and contacts with the justice system. He regularly participates as a lecturer in various
educational contexts, including the training of police offi cers, lawyers, social workers,
prosecutors and judges.
Vesna Nikolić Ristanović currently works as professor at the Faculty of Special Edu-
cation and Rehabilitation at the University of Belgrade, where she teaches criminology,
victimology, child abuse and juvenile delinquency. She deals with issues including vio-
lence against women, traffi cking in persons, war victimization (particularly war rapes),
protection of victims, human and women’s rights, and the use of restorative justice in
dealing with a past in post-conflict societies. She is the founder, first president and cur-
rent director of the Victimology Society of Serbia. She is also current president-elect of
European Criminology Society and member of executive committee of World Society
of Victimology.
Belgrade, November 2011

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Foreword
The increased attention toward victims of crimes in past years has motivated many
countries to rethink the mechanisms used in many sectors of the society who provide
assistance and protection to victims of crime. This book was written in an effort to shed
light into what is the situation regarding the victims of crimes in Serbia using interna-
tional perspective, primarily developments and researches conducted in Sweden.