Vulnerability
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Vulnerability is viewed by many researchers as “a set of characteristics or circumstances, which predispose an individual to manifest problems in adaptation”. Other researchers differentiate risk factors from vulnerability by associating risk with environmental influences and associating vulnerability with the child (Trudel and Puentes-Neuman, 2001).
Source: reproduced with the permission of the Government of Canada
added by
Burkhard Hasenpusch
German Congress on Crime Prevention (GCOCP)