Victimology Annotated Bibliography

Dussich J.P.J., (n.d). Victimology-Past, Present and Future. http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/RS_No70/No70_12VE_Dussich.pdf This is a report that was presented by Dussich John who holds a PhD in sociology and criminology from the Florida State University. He is a renown scholar in matters to do with sociology and criminology hence has in-depth presentation of the issue of victimology. This report emanates from a research that significantly employed the literature review approach towards the research.

Dussich goes deep into reviewing literature that exists in various articles and books in the past on the subject and comes out with not only the details of victimology and those relevant events to the topic, but also with dates that these outstanding events took place. This reconstruction and collection of facts brings into perspective the gradual development of the subject of victimology over time.

This article targets the scholars in the field of victimology, the law enforcement agents as well as the legal practitioners who can have inferences to the case scenarios and events highlighted by the article. The law enforcement agencies can use the article to enlighten them on previous cases of victimization and hence use such to effectively identify possible victims and institute efficient ways of protecting them. This report brings out significant definition and description of terms and concepts that are central in understanding the aspect of victimology.

It gives timelines that define the evolution of victimology and then ultimately gives the major aims of the world society of victimology as relates to the various fields like medical, legal, religious, the civil society, the education sector and even the victims themselves. The research significantly contributed to the deep understanding of the history of victimology hence opening up minds on what really victimology entails.

It also allows the reader to effectively understand the circumstances around the victim blaming and how these different concepts and case scenarios can be brought into the context of the contemporary challenges society faces. Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania (2014). 'Strengthening Judicial Cooperation to Protect Victims of Crime'. http://www.inm-lex.ro/fisiere/d_926/Project%20Handbook_final.pdf This is a report of a council that was financed by the European Union and put together and implement by the Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania.

Being a council, it had the far reaching mandate and scope in ensuring the field of victims of crime was effectively covered and also divergent approaches, ideas and theories used from the various and numerous members of the council. The council used case studies, literature review and focus groups as the main sources of the information presented in the report. The council puts into perspective several case studies that they conduct in the Netherlands and Romania mainly and these are what informs this long report.

Here, the target population is predominantly the victims who are spread across Europe and are prone to falling in the victim blaming bracket. The other group targeted in this research is the human rights groups and the European member states in a wider concept.

The findings of the research can be briefly put as the ultimate way of understanding the concept of victimology, one needs to know what causes victim blaming or victimization and the only way of reducing victimization is by the victim thoroughly understanding the rights of the victim of any circumstance or crime. The article also highlights the various categories of victims which is very instrumental in knowing the circumstances that can lead to victim blaming.

The article gives the reader an in-depth understanding of victim blaming in the context of European nations and the various categories of victims and how each of them suffer different kinds of victimization. It also highlights the role of various bodies like the human rights groups, governments, law enforcement agencies in the reduction of victimization especially in Europe. Finkelhor D., (2007). Developmental Victimology: The Comprehensive Study of Childhood Victimization.

http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV142L.pdf The author, Finkelhor is a well known American sociologist who has done extensive research on the issue of child sexual abuse and topics related to this. His writings have significant influence on the way the law enforcement agencies and investigators carry out their activities. The literature review that the author conducts is very thorough and informs this research paper or chapter.

There are various reviews of cases involving child molestation and these help in building up this research report to a meaningful component. This report focuses solely on the child victimization and the conditions that make it possible for the increase of child victimization. The target population in this research is the young children who are innocent victims of crime victim blaming. It portrays the children as vulnerable victims whose sole chance of escaping crimes is the offender.

The research also highlights the dependency continuum and the challenges or the loose ends of each continuum. There are various findings of the research that the writer puts forth, one such significant finding is that there are.