Long and Short Term Impacts of Crime

Victims of crime do not always forget what happened to them. Sometimes when somebody is a victim of crime it is not always the easiest thing for them to get over and sometimes they are haunted by it forever. It is very difficult for somebody who is a victim of crime to have to re-live what has happened. For instance, if a woman has been raped and it has traumatized her, it is going to be difficult for her to go through what happened to her with the police. In the Law and Order episode, Harper showed what the long term effects of a sexual assault can do to a woman. She had stopped eating, she could't only sleep during the day and when she finally did sleep at night she had to have all of the lights in her house on. The psychological effects that the assault took on her forced her to even sleep in her sneakers.