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Jouie L. Donato
12/08/2012
PENAL VICTIMOLOGY 1941: HANS von HENTIG The Criminal-Victim Dyad -created a toxonomy that described how victims were responsible for their harms.
1. The Young 2. The Female 3. The Old 4. The Mentally Defective and Deranged 5. The Immigrants 6. The Minorities 7. The Dull Normals 8. The Depressed 9. The Acquisitive 10. Wanton 11. The Lonesome and the Heartbroken 12. The Tormentor 13. The Blocked, Exempted, or Fighting
1947: BENJAMIN MENDELSOHN The Penal Couple - A toxonomy centered on the relative guilt of victims
1. The completely innocent victim. 2. The victim with minor guilt. 3. The victim who is as guilty as the offender. 4. The victim who is more guilty than the offender. 5. The most guilty victim. 6. The imaginary victim.
1989:David Miers POSITIVIST VICTIMOLOGY - non-random pattern victimization of crime 1989: Sandra Walklate CONVENTIONAL VICTIMOLOGY - Ordinary criminal Act
1990: KARMEN CONSERVATIVE VICTIMOLOGY - CJS as guarantor of justice Nagel INTERACTIONIST VICTIMOLOGY - victim-offender relationship
MODERN VICTIMOLOGY 1956: MENDELSOHN "victimity or victimization - proposed establishing victim clinics which would provide victim assistance based on a specific theory of personal, social and cultural rehabilitation.
1. criminal victimization, 2. self-victimization, 3. social environmental victimization, 4. technological victimization, and 5. natural disaster victimization.
SUBJECTS: not only the victims of crime and power abuse but also the victims of accidents, natural disasters and other "acts of God INFLUENCES: Victims Movement; Clinical Studies
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Minor victims ignores personal responsibility. Penal Victimologists helps balance the exaggeration. Cresseys Humanistic vs Academic Approach Eliass objective scientific research Fattahs contention
It is defined by criminal Clinical Studies; law; defines victimology as the study of the victims of illegal criminal acts, which are incriminated in accordance with the criminal law provisions. It aims to provide victim assistance based on a specific theory of personal, social and cultural rehabilitation.
Subject of Research
correlates the data on the causes of a crime with the data on to the victim's role in generating the crime
Should be not only the victims of crime and power abuse but also the victims of accidents, natural disasters and other "acts of God"
Focus
Penal victimology looks into the dynamics of the victim-offender interaction. Analysis on the genesis of victimization
Principle
Victims must not be studied in purely medical terms. Criminal Victimization is not a clinical phenomenon.
Victimology should not be aimed at studying and interpreting the victims but at helping them.
Principle
The key to a better understanding of the problems is the recognition that they have been wronged by another human being and that their shattered sense of justice must be repaired. Victims must not only be given therapeutic help, they must also be rendered justice.
It seeks to focus on the treatment of victims, prevent future victimization and help victims deal with (or reduce) the consequences experienced from their victimization, without regard to the actual cause of that victimization. Victims of wars, natural disasters and accidents would fall into this generalized category.
It is the scientific study of the extent, nature and causes of criminal victimization, its consequences for the persons involved and the reactions thereto by society, in particular the police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers.