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Victimology
Restorative Justice
Listen to the Restorative Justice podcast. View the video The Woolf Within. Citing specific victims and offenders profiled in the video or podcast, and using what you learned about restorative justice from your readings, answer the following:
Why do individuals (both victims and offenders) agree to engage in restorative justice meetings?
What were the positive and negative outcomes of these meetings for the persons profiled?
Please post one original response. Each original response should be a minimum of 125 words in length.
Victims may agree to restorative justice meetings to gain a sense of closure about the crime they suffered. They may also want to confront the perpetrator so they can speak to him or her, and show that his or her crime had real implications for a human being. Perpetrators may feel genuine remorse. Part of the rehabilitative efforts of the criminal justice system are...
Restorative justice attempts to merge two perspectives -- the idea that justice means retribution or making the victim feel 'whole' versus the idea that the perpetrator must be 'made whole' through being rehabilitated. In restorative justice, both parties are 'restored' by the perpetrator giving back to the community.
For the victims and the families of victims, restorative justice can be very difficult emotionally, in terms of dredging up past, painful memories like the death of a child, as expressed in the words of the woman in the first video clip. However, through forgiveness the victims can feel a sense of healing and move on with their lives, rather than remain stymied and cut off from the future because they are living in the past, as in the case of the victim of the burglary in the second film clip. Perpetrators are able to confront the reality of…
The history of criminology can be traced back to the 19th Century when theories regarding the origin of criminal behavior and traits were developed by Cesare Lombroso. On the contrary, victimology is a recent scientific discipline that started in Europe after the Second World War as a means of understanding the link between criminals and victims (Lee, n.d.). Focus Points: One of the major differences between victimology and criminology is their
Victimology is the branch of criminology dealing with victim characteristics, victim data, and patterns of victimization. The study of victimology is useful to criminologists for a variety of reasons. Victimology can help show which populations are at greater risk for which crimes, thereby allowing more effective public policies and anti-crime initiatives. Likewise, knowing which populations are at greater risk for which crimes can help law enforcement prevent crimes. Victimology can
" (Sherman and Strang, 2007) Findings include that restorative justice: (1) substantially reduced repeat offending for some offenders but not all; (2) Doubled (or more) the offense brought to justice as diversions from criminal justice; (3) reduced crime victims' post-traumatic stress symptoms and related costs; (4)provided both victims and offenders with more satisfaction with justice than criminal justice; (5) reduced desires of victim for violent revenge on offenders; (6) reduced
The Routine Activities Theory states that crime occurs because specific conditions all come together at the same time (Karmen, 2003). There needs to be an offender who is motivated and a target that is considered to be suitable by that offender. The only other thing needed is an absence of guardians (Karmen, 2003). That last requirement actually occurs quite often, because there are very few places where there is
Victimology The Depressed: According to the Maurer School of Law Protective Order Project (2012), "Children who witness the abuse of their mothers are at in increased risk for emotional and behavioral disturbances, such as withdrawal, low self-esteem," and other disturbances to the individual's self-perception vs. perception of the outside world. An example of how an indirect depressed victim might react would be for a child to stop going out with friends.
If the victim had a blog or home page then we would of course use that to discover more about her lifestyle, personality, and choice of friends. If she had been a member of an online dating service or similar social networks, then we might discover numerous leads. The victim might have agreed to go on a date with a man she met online and that man might be