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  posted on 22.06.2015, 12:34 by Laura L. Garius,  Louise Nicholas

This article details the first year of a collaborative effort between a campus-based university and its local Victim Support scheme. The key innovative component was that student volunteers were trained to provide support to peers who experienced crime. Not a formal evaluation, this article outlines how the work appeared beneficial to the university, its students and Victim Support. The first two benefited through improved on-campus service to victimized students and to those who were trained and worked as volunteers. Victim Support benefited from increased numbers of volunteers and consequently improved services. Some implementation difficulties are also described. This study provides a platform for further efforts and their more formal evaluation.

Categories
	Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
	Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified


Keywords
Access to servicesPeer supportStudentsVictimsVoluntary sector


History

School
	Social Sciences


Department
	Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies


Published in
International Review of Victimology
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
233 - 245
Citation
GARIUS, L. and GROVE, L.E., 2015. Enriching the university experience through volunteering: a pilot project. International Review of Victimology, 21 (2), pp. 233 - 245
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd / © The Author(s)
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publication date
2015
Notes
This article was published in the journal, International Review of Victimology [SAGE Publications Ltd / © The Author(s)]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758015571474
DOI
	https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758015571474


ISSN
0269-7580
eISSN
2047-9433
Publisher version
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758015571474


Language
en
Administrator link
	https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/account/articles/9475919



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Categories
	Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
	Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified


Keywords
Access to servicesPeer supportStudentsVictimsVoluntary sector

Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Select an optionRefWorksBibTeXRef. managerEndnoteDataCiteNLMDC








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