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  • January 8, 2024
  • 8
  • 2023/2024
  • Summary

Subjects

  • victimology
  • victimhood
  • durkheim
  • marx
  • restorative justice
  • victim policy
  • justice motive
  • moralization gap

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  • Criminologische Wetenschappen
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BULLETPOINTS AND GLOSSARY: VICTIMOLOGY
BULLETPOINTS WEEK 2: HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES

Limitations of official statistics: Moralization gap:

 Dark number  Moral tone
 Accuracy  Impact
 Difficulties for cross-country comparison and  Role of context
understanding trends  Time frame
 Lack of variables for further study

Adversarial system: Inquisitorial system:

 No civil parties  Civil prosecutors
 Hearing in court  Pre-trial investigation
 No role for victims  Victims as civil parties
 Testifying in court  Testifying in investigation

Retribution: Revenge:

 For a wrong  May be for harm or slight
 Sets a limit  Limitless
 Guided by general principles  No need for consistency
 No emotional tone  Emotional tone
 Impersonal  Personal

Ideal victim: Non-ideal victim:

 Weak  Strong
 Legitimate  Not carrying any project
 Blameless  Protection = not being there
 Unrelated to offender  Related to offender (close)
 Offender = big and bad  As big as offender


BULLETPOINTS WEEK 3: WHO IS THE VICTIM?

Changing views on criminal offences: Circles of victims:

 History  Primary
 Countries/cultures  Secondary
 Political perspectives  Tertiary
 Political conflict

Criminal justice system: Johnson:

 Blaming the victim  Intimate terrorism
 Excluding the victim  Mutual violent control
 Making the process difficult to understand  Violent resistance
 Situational couple violence

, BULLETPOINTS WEEK 4: BECOMING A VICTIM – RISK AND LABELLING

Crime data sources: Fear of crime:

 Official statistics  Risk
 Victim surveys  Consequences
 Self-report studies  Control

Problems with victim surveys:

 Not knowing
 Forgetting/not mentioning
 Inaccurate information
 Differences in productivity
 Increasing difficulty of achieving a representative sample

Main risk factors: CRAVED principle:

 Young  Concealable
 Middle class  Removable
 Single  Available
 Outgoing  Valuable
 Male  Enjoyable
 Young females  Disposable

Victimization risk: Repeat victimization:

 Lifestyle exposure theory  Risk heterogeneity (flag)
 Routine activities theory  Event dependency (boost)



Child victimization: Complexities of child victimization:

 Pandemic  Crime
 Acute  Child maltreatment
 Extraordinary  Non-crimes


BULLETPOINTS WEEK 5: THE CONSEQUENCES OF VICTIMIZATION

Consequences and needs: Issues to traumatic stress:

 Protection and prevention  Blaming
 Medical assistance  Control
 Financial consequences  Support
 Emotional and psychological consequences

Kinds of victimization:  Bias related/hate crime victimization

 Traumatic stress Cyber enabled crime:
 Victimization by rape
 Co-victim by homicide  Financial
 Victims of cybercrime  Interpersonal
 Sexual

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