The TIVI-Bib is now open for public use. It has proven already its usefulness.

It is impossible for us to include even the majority of excellent victimological contributions – the mass of production and the scope of contents are so broad that any idea of comprehensiveness must be given up. The items in this bibliography are not collected systematically. Therefore the content is by no imaginable means complete or exhaustive.

The bibliography was founded out of the desire to supply victimologists with information they can use in their studies. If we do not know what was produced before we started, we can not develop a scientific body of knowledge in victimology. Often it is hard to get to this information. Digitalization of bibliographies is missing. Access to foreign language publications is problematic. Sometimes simply the costs of ordering books or articles in inter library loan systems are often prohibitive. Students cannot order items and then decide whether they can use them or not. Victimologists out of these countries convinced us that summaries were necessary. The summaries are in English while the keywords have been translated into English, German, Spanish and Japanese. When we started this work, there was no online bibliography in victimology available. The system of keywords was undeveloped. During the years, new areas in victimology have been opened – when this bibliography started, modern victimological concepts were missing.

The content of this bibliography is best understood as a starter, a first orientation. This bibliography is enhanced constantly and will not lose its “impressionistic” character. But in future it will concentrate on research contributions in Asia provided the authors have made them available to us.

Authors are kindly requested to send their works to the TIVIBib to help that this bibliography grows and becomes more useful for the students of victimology. The best way to have your research contribution included in this bibliography, is, to send the works to us. We do not have the means – in time and in material resources – to search systematically for new publications. We depend on the cooperation of authors and publishers.

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