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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog
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CJ 426 - Victimology
Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
This course is an examination of victims in the Criminal Justice system across modern and historical context with focus on interactions, treatment, roles, and the various types of harm victims incur. Victimology theory and research that detail victims’ characteristics, victimization rates and patterns in relation to socially distinctive categories are used in order to provide appropriate identification and response. This course is for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Applied Science Program.
Course Outcomes:
- Recall basic terms, concepts, and ideas in victimology.
- Develop a foundational understanding in the history and progression of the victimology field.
- Discuss the history and development of the “victims’ rights movement,†as well as social policy and services for victims.
- Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the various method used to measure crime and victimization.
- Describe societal and individual victimization consequences including psychological, physical, and financial.
- Analyze contemporary problems and trends in victimology, such as victims of hate crimes, human trafficking, cybercrime, and terrorism.
Course Topics:
- Rape Shield laws
- National Crime Victimization Survey
- Victim impact statements
- Mental and emotional consequences of crime
- Victimization of special populations
- Victim services and assistance
- Victimization fallacies
Course Attribute(s): None
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