Lesson 14

• Offender

  • Experience guilt or shame
  • Live with the action
  • Legal costs - legal representative
  • Loss of friendships or support
  • Reputation damaged (future job prospects)
  • Physical and mental health - medical costs/treatment
• Victims & Families

  • Physical pain/injury - medical costs
  • Disruption to family life - income disrupted
  • Unsafe, fearful, loss of trust
  • Psychological issues - post-traumatic stress, insomnia
  • Grief
• Society

  • Less cohesion and safety
  • Taxpayers support medical costs, increased need for police
  • Media coverage can influence emotional support
  • Community can lose reputation, lack of trust