Chapter 1

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 Plight of Crime Victims  

 Victim: someone who suffers injuries, losses or hardships for any  reason  

 Victimization

∙ Predator / prey  

 Victimology  

∙ Want to know whether and to what degree victims  experience physical wounds, economic hardships and  emotional turmoil  

∙ Victimologists are social scientists and researchers   Indirect and Secondary Victims  

∙ Survivors of those killed  

∙ First responders, rescue workers, or crime scene  

investigators  

 Major Movements  

 Law and Order Movement  

 Women’s Movement  

What is the purpose of law and order?

 Civil Liberties Movement  

 Self-Help Movement  

 Elected Officials  

 Brandy Bill  

 Jeanne Clery Act  

 Megan’s Law  

 News Media  

 Sensationalize crimes  

 Most attention goes to women, children, or prominent and  wealthy  

CHAPTER 2  

 Decline of Crime Victims  

 Victims used to play a crucial role in prosecution of offenders   This diminished as industrialization and urbanization began   Rediscovery  

 Self-help advocates, social scientists, crusading journalists,  justice officials and responsive law makers  

 Stage One

 Calling attention to an overlooked problem  

How does victimization affect the victim?

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 Typification  

 Stage Two  

 Winning Victories, and Implement Reforms  

 Stage Three  

 Emergence of an opposition and development of resistance to  further charges

 Stage Four  

 Research and temporary resolution of disputes  

CHAPTER 3  

 Statistics  

 Victimization rates  

 Patterns  

 Trends  

 Profiles  

 Uniform Crime Report  

 All incidents known to local, county and state departments   8 index crimes  

 National Crime Victimization Survey  

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 Crime Clock  

 At every minute of every day crime is happening  

 Not reliable  

 National Incident Based Reporting System  

 Includes information about victims  

CHAPTER 4  

 Focusing on murders  

 Incidence rate  

 Cumulative risk  

 Differential risk  

 Supplementary Homicide Report  

 About each killing in a jurisdiction  

 Information about victim and offender  

 South, urban resident, male, teen/young adult, African American run highest risk of murder  Don't forget about the age old question of What is the similarity between managerial and financial accounting?

 Northeast, small town, rural community, female/child/elderly,  white/Asian at lowest risk  

 Robberies  

 Stranger on stranger  

 Chances of Victimization  

 Prevalence rates  

 Situational factors  

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 Proximity  

 Vulnerability  

 Routine Activities Theory  

 Social ecology  

 Crime Prevention v. Victim Prevention

CHAPTER 5  

 Shared Responsibility  

 Repeat Victim

 Suffers twice  

 Chronic Victim  

 Suffers 3+ times  

 Victim Facilitation  

 Irresponsible with stuff  

 Victim Precipitation  

 When you are irresponsible with yourself   Victim Provocation  

 Victim is solely responsible for victimization   Victim Blaming and Defending