Decálogo De Buenas Prácticas Para La Intervención Con Víctimas Del Terrorismo en El Proceso Penal [Decalogue of Best Practices for Intervention With Terrorism Victims in Criminal Prosecution Proceedings]

Abstract

We know that the quality of a social intervention depends to a large extent on whether it encompasses and takes into consideration all of the relationship systems in which the person takes part. Moreover, experience and practice teach us how to see the specificities of each area of our work, to detect existing needs and to act on them. Working with terrorism victims is no exception, and for this reason projects should be programmed and carried out on the same basis. The social work staff at the Subdirectorate General of Support for the Victims of Terrorism (attached to the Directorate General of the same name, which in turn is part of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior) has prepared the following Decalogue as a way of sharing with our colleagues our practical experience and reflections in a written document that we hope will be useful as a theoretical reference in social intervention with victims of terrorism. The project was carried out with the collaboration of the rest of the experts on the unit's staff, which also includes a sociologist and a political scientist.