VICTIMOLOGY

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This course exams the scope, causes, and effects of victimization including the impact of victim vulnerability and victim culpability. The in- creasing role of the victim in the criminal justice process will be thoroughly discussed. Topics will include a focus on victimization as it relates to sexual, child, elderly and spousal abuse; victims rights; the complex interrelation- ship between offender and victim; and restitution alternatives.