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• Appropriate coping can be taught and is a method that has been shown to reduce violence in many settings, especially schools.

• Some victims may need to learn new coping skills that were never taught them at home. Of special importance are problem-solving skills: how to assess problems realistically, search for alternative solutions based on their consequences, selection of the best options, carrying out the selected option, and, evaluating the results”.

According to Spanish criminal law we can classify victims in three major groups:

A. Victims of interpersonal violent crimes, from international crimes to terrorism, organised crime and any interpersonal violent crime, including those negligent ones. In the section on green Victimology, we will note that other beings and ecosystems can also be victims of violent crimes, at least in a victimological sense.

B. Victims of economic crimes, from common property crime to economic and white-collar crime where we might find diffuse victimisation, that is, the whole society is thought as the victim (beyond the notion of morality in crimes without victims, as expressed by Schur, 1965).