Victimology

Catalog description

PREREQUISITES: None. CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Supports a comprehensive review of the comtemporary study of victimology, the complex subject of victimization and the American criminal justice process. The history of victimology and the so-called victim movement will be reviewed, and theories of victimization and the collection of victimization data will be discussed. Specific types of victimization, and societal reaction will be examined to include child maltreatment, intimate partner abuse, elderly abuse, conventional property and interpersonal criminal victimization, including sexual predation, and emergent crimes in cyberspace; and prospects for restorative justice and remediating the losses and harms and hardships and indignities suffered by crime victims will be assessed.