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ssss1.E. A. Fattah, one of the early pioneers of Victimology, is the founder of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he is professor emeritus.

ssss1.I am deeply honoured and enormously flattered to be given the opportunity to write a brief preface to this comprehensive treatise on Victimology and my sincere thanks go to the author, a long time carrier of the Victimology flag, my esteemed colleague, Prof. Gema Varona.

Victimology is an empirical and interdisciplinary social science studying victimisation and recovery processes understood as complex dynamics. The complexity affects the diversity of those experiences throughout time. There are multiple, visible and hidden factors and contexts affecting those processes. Victimology is a young discipline, usually conceived of within Criminology, although some of its concepts can be applied to other traumatic events or harms beyond crime.

This book on Victimology contributes to the objectives of expanding victimological knowledge by helping to understand, apply, analyse and evaluate victimological and further social data from the standpoint of interdependent human rights, particularly when those rights have been violated. The final purpose of Victimology is to prevent, minimise and repair the impact of victimisation, including secondary victimisation. With that aim, this book tries to clarify some concepts as keys for further learning. To focus on basic victimological concepts requires the simplification of entangled individual experiences and social phenomena, while fostering a critical standpoint in order to facilitate more depth and autonomy for future knowledge.