Crime Victim Study

CRIME VICTIM STUDIES

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY – HOUSTON

3rd TERM – 2016

PROFESSOR KEN SANFORD

Crime Victim Study

Assignment Details #1 3-5pgs

You graduated from the AIU Criminal Justice Bachelor Program only 1 year ago, and you are now the victim rights advocate for your county prosecutor’s office. When you entered the criminal justice program, you never dreamed that you would have a career helping victims of crimes to navigate the criminal justice system. Your duties include everything from comforting a victim of a sexual assault to helping the families of murder victims. Already, you have had opportunities to help so many people, and this type of work makes you feel proud of what you do. You are so proud, that it is all you speak about to your families and friends. So when Grace, the chief attorney, asks you to do something, you try to do your absolute best. The following assignment is no different.

Grace, the chief attorney (CA), asks you to draft a report that she will use in her presentation to the county commission. Her goal is to keep the victim witness assistant positions that currently exist and increase the number of these positions in the future. She knows that providing victim advocacy is a relatively new concept to the criminal justice system and that the commissioners are not familiar with the concept that the criminal justice system should take a more active role with victims.

Grace needs you to provide information from 8 of the following 12 areas of discussion:

Give a definition of victimology. Victimology is the study of the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. To understand this concept, we must first comprehend what the terms victim and perpetrator mean. The victim is a person who has been harmed, attacked, injured, robbed, or killed by another individual, group, or organization who is the allege perpetrator.

The perpetrator, also known as the offender, is an individual who has committed an illegal, criminal, or evil act against the victim. Law enforcement agencies use the study of victimology and the theories of victimology to determine why the victim was targeted by the offender. So, basically Victimology is the study of victims of crimes and the psychological effects on them of their experience.

What is the history of victimology, and how has it developed? The word Victimology contains two term