Victimology And The Development Of Victimology

This paper will inquire into the meaning of victimology and the history of the development of victimology. It will also compare the differences from criminology, sociology, and psychology. This paper will discuss whom first enacted the first safe houses for women and the location of the first safe houses. Followed, by discussing who began the first rape crisis centers, as well as when the first rape crisis center began. This paper will have a look on the contributions of the Civil Rights movement and the antidiscrimination efforts and the establishing of the hate crime legislation and policies. Also, discussing the role of the children’s rights groups, highlighting the child victim’s face in the criminal justice system. Finally, discussing …show more content…
(Doerner & Lab, 2014). The main point of Victimology is to get an understanding to why the criminal targeted this location or individual. Victimology analyzes the incident that is responsible for an individual becoming a victim, and what was experienced at the time of the crime, any psychological problems because of the crime, and how society respond to the crimes towards the victims.
There were no written laws or legal codes prior to the study of victimology (Doerner & Lab, 2014). Society decided that it was acceptable and nonacceptable behavior since there were no judges, written laws, or legal codes. Due to judges and correctional facilities not existing, families and victims had to take matters into their own hands towards the victimizer. Victims would receive justice by ways of retribution or restitution from the criminal’s actions. Meaning that under retribution the criminals received equivalent punishment he or she delivered on the victim. If a criminal murdered another individual, then the family and society would kill the criminal, is an example. A criminal or criminal’s family paying the victim money or any other form of payment, such as cattle is called …show more content…
This causes that subjects and individual to become a victim; events take place during the victimization; the how an individual physical and psychologically recovers from a victimization; and how well the victim responds to people, cultures, and organizations (Dussich, n.d.). Lastly, victimology is the study of the reasons why, when, and the manner certain people will become victims of crime. Victimology uses all data of the psychological and social studies. Criminology differs from victimology because criminology examines criminal’s motives, criminal acts, background, and how the criminal is treated through the criminal justice system. (What is criminology?,n.d.). The way all of society observes how people live, social changes, and the causes and consequences on people’s behaviors is called sociology (What is sociology?, 2015). Victimology is different from psychology because psychology studies the mind and the behavior of individuals and examining how the brain of an individuals operates and how they deal with life and society (This is psychology,