Victimology

Jesse Horton Victimization in Arkansas April 2nd, 2017 Victimology Dr. Molly Smith There are many different types of sexual abuse agencies in America. The one that I am highlighting today is the Center for Healing Hearts and Spirts. The agency is in Little Rock, Arkansas. They provide many types of services to not only sexual abuse victims but also, other types of victims. They offer VOCA-Victim services, Rape Crisis programs, Sexual Assault Awareness, Emergency Domestic Violence Shelter…

Many are under the assumption that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted or raped by a stranger than by someone they know personally. Many presume that “family conflicts”—which has been used as a euphemism for domestic violence—should be kept private. Many believe that these types of heinous crimes do not happen in their neighborhood. All of these notions are false. Each and every day, these monstrous crimes are being committed to innocent people. Depending on the severity of their…

20 I also had the opportunity to participate in mock trials and present real-life law cases by 21 using theoretical perspectives. 22 Furthermore, one of the course that most affected me was Victimology because I learned how 23 specific crimes might be similar in nature, but how the crime and the perpetrator is perceived 24 might be different depending on the society the crime was committed in. To further understand 25 this, I wrote…

nationality or even religion. Much of the time these types of profiling are used in order to single out specific people at different kinds of security checks, such as an airport. I have explained the reasoning for criminal profiling, also known as victimology, but what is the reason for the…

On February 1, 2001, Michelle McCottry called 911 and told the operator her ex-boyfriend, Adrian Davis, had beat her with his fists and fled the scene. Davis was arrested and charged with felony violation of a domestic no-contact order. During the trial, McCottry did not testify and the prosecution used McCottry’s 911 call as evidence of her injuries caused by Davis (Davis v. Washington, n.d.). Davis objected to the use of the 911 call as evidence, citing his Sixth Amendment confrontation…

Psychologists have studied the procedures and tactics that are used by the police officers in criminal investigations. They have produced psychological knowledge and have helped the police to be able to apply it to criminal investigations. Since 1958, there have been many adaptations to the way psychologists handle investigations and autopsies. Police psychologists usually play many roles within law enforcement. Although things have evolved, they are still used to aid the pathologist or medical…

for these people who lost their youth to a horrible experiment, I believed there should have done from them in sense maybe getting their life back together. Since there lost their youth to this experiment In Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology, Andrew Karmen explains that the Fourteenth Amendment offers equal protection under the law for everybody, regardless of their race, sex, or class; justice is blind (2010). However, I believe that this principle was not honored in regard to…

The reason that I choose criminology from all majors was because I was in the process of changing majors and I had no idea what I wanted to major in so I went on the career and services on the Fresno state page. I took two assessments, which were Eureka and true colors that help me, figure which career fields best suit me. After that I started looking through all the majors and seeing which one interested me. Criminology was a major/ career that interested me the most from all other majors.…

For this journal entry I chose to review the television show, Criminal Minds viewed on 4/11/16. The show, Criminal Minds is based on a team of FBI Profilers who analyzes the un-sub (perpetrator) criminal minds and tries to anticipate the perpetrator’s next move in hopes of apprehending them. Most cases involve a serial killer. In this episode, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, (BAU), is called in to investigate when three people have been murdered in two separate incidents in Los Angeles…

N. Victimology There were no similarities between Ramirez victims as they were random and had no real connection with regards to age, race or gender. The victims were “Jennie Wincow (79), Dayle Okazaki (34), Tsai "Veronica" Lan Yu (30), Vincent Zazzara (64), and his wife Maxine (44) , William "Bill" Doi (66), Mable "Ma Bell" Keller (83), Mary Louise Cannon (75) , Joyce Lucille Nelson (61), Max (68), and Lela Kneiding (66) , Chainarong Khovananth (32), Elyas Abowath (35)” (…