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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CRIM 104 - Victimology
PROGRAM: Criminal Justice
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2014
Supports a comprehensive review of the contemporary 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.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Identify the theories and data related to victimology.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the history of victimology.
- Understand victims and how they may have become victims.
- Critically evaluate the impact of justice on different groups, races, sexes, and classes.
- Identify specific types of criminal victimization.
- Demonstrate an understanding and critique of how criminal justice professionals respond to victims.
- Expressly recognize contemporary expressions of victimization at work and school.
- Both orally and in written expression identify and critically analyze victim participation in the criminal justice system decision-making.
- Identify the contemporary scope and limits of the so-called victim rights.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- The emergent criminological interest in victims and victimization
- Critical victimology
- Victim movement and legal reform
- Criminal victimization measurement
- Consequences of victimization
- Offender restitution
- Victim compensation
- Restorative justice
- Sexual predation
- Intimate partner violence
- Child abuse and neglect
- Elder abuse and neglect
- Criminal victimization at work and at school
- Victim rights
- Victim advocacy
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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