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Editor's Note: This is the third of a series of articles
that will be printed in the Daily Nebraskan dealing with
student legal problems. Stories will appear every Friday.
More and more victims of crime are seeking - and
getting - other help besides sympathy. The Nebraska
Legislature passed a bill last year to establish Victim and
Witness centers, and a Bill of Rights for Victims and
Witnesses of Crime, sponsored by state Sen. Carol Pirsch
of Omaha.
The city of Lincoln and the Lincoln Police Depart
ment have taken part in helping victims, according to
Shirley Kuhle, administrator of LPD's VictimWitness
unit. Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis and Police Chief
Dean Leitner applied for a grant from the Nebraska
Crime Commission to set up the unit in September of
last year. Kuhle said she has worked on victim-related
issues for six years and also has worked with many state
and local boards dealing with victim's rights.
Eight or more interns from UNL's sociology and
criminal justice departments also work with the victim
unit, in addition to 25 trained volunteers and the Lin
coln Chaplaincy Corps.
The Lincoln VictimWitness unit works with five
main areas of felony: with families of murder victims,
rape, robbery, assault and burglary.
Counseling provided
Kuhle said the unit provides several kinds of help
for crime victims and witnesses.
Victim counseling is provided to help people with
immediate and long-term emotional and social needs
and to alleviate the immediate burden placed on uni
formed police.
Some services are geared to improve witness partici
pation in the criminal justice process by informing them
on how the system works and updating specific cases.
Financial awards also are available for some victims.
The Nebraska Crime Victims' Reparations Board was
created in 1979 to aid crime victims who had nowhere to
go to for financial relief, said Pat King, a staff assistant
for the reparations board. If the victim will not be re-
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King said 69 awards were given last year, including
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Kuhle noted that the LPD VictimWitness unit does
not offer financial awards like the Crime Reparations
Board, but is intended to close the communication gap
between the victim and community resources which
could relieve the victims' loss or injury.
Surprise, shock, disbelief
One focus of the unit is to intervene in the self-destructive
behavior pattern of many victims, Kuhle said.
She said many victims' first reaction is to refuse to be
lieve what has happened.
"Surprise, shock and disbelief are common reactions,"
she said. "Victims often report that they felt as if they
were watching themselves in a movie - that the crime
wasn't really happening."
During the actual crime, many victims experience the
"fight or flight" mechanism of the body, she said. An
increased adrenaline flow can make the person tense or
shaky. After the crime, most victims experience a mixture
of anger and guilt. A natural anger at the criminal may
combine with anger that the victim has been forced into
a position of powerlessness and vulnerability, Kuhle
explained.
"You may feel guilty because you did not do any
thing to prevent the victimization," she said. However,
doing anything other than handing over what the crimi
nal wants may be risky, Kuhle stressed.
The long-range after effects of such an incident may
cause increased frustration with work and family prob
lems. "Some victims report an inexplicable irritability that
often is the result of displaced anger toward the assailant
and the after effects of the crime," Kuhle said. Changes
in eating and sleeping habits are common, and the victim
may become suspicious and mistakenly recognize inno-
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