Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate School students.
This course critically explores the physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer because of illegal criminal activities. The focus of the course is on the nature and extent of victimization, the estimation of risk, theories about the causes of victimization, and the consequences of victimization experiences. In addition, students will also study the emergence of special victims' groups, the implications of a victim-orientated perspective for the administration of justice, and system alternatives such as restitution and restorative justice.
Outcomes: Articulate the history, nature, and magnitude of criminal victimization in the U.S.; Describe the theoretical underpinnings of victimization and current research on the risk and protective factors of criminal victimization; Differentiate the legal and social responses to criminal victimization; Describe the primary and secondary impact of criminal victimization on victims, their families, friends, and communities; Analyze data to examine trends and patterns of criminal victimization; Analyze data to examine the causes and correlates of criminal victimization; Identify which interventions and strategies offer the most promise for effective implementation and impact on preventing criminal victimization.
This course critically explores the physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer because of illegal criminal activities. The focus of the course is on the nature and extent of victimization, the estimation of risk, theories about the causes of victimization, and the consequences of victimization experiences. In addition, students will also study the emergence of special victims' groups, the implications of a victim-orientated perspective for the administration of justice, and system alternatives such as restitution and restorative justice.
Outcomes: Articulate the history, nature, and magnitude of criminal victimization in the U.S.; Describe the theoretical underpinnings of victimization and current research on the risk and protective factors of criminal victimization; Differentiate the legal and social responses to criminal victimization; Describe the primary and secondary impact of criminal victimization on victims, their families, friends, and communities; Analyze data to examine trends and patterns of criminal victimization; Analyze data to examine the causes and correlates of criminal victimization; Identify which interventions and strategies offer the most promise for effective implementation and impact on preventing criminal victimization.