Victimology

Victimology Jane Doe was involved in two romantic relationships at the same time; an affair is considered a higher risk activity due to the strong emotion these relationships involve. Infuriation and heartbreak is likely to result if the new boyfriend were to discover Jane Doe had begun to see her past boyfriend. Moral judgment comes into question, too, which also can trigger more strong emotions. Anger will impair decision-making and alter perception. These factors are higher risk and increase…

Introduction: Building a psychological profile for a violent criminal is usually not the first step taken in trying to apprehend an unknown offender. Why this tool can be used for mild or one time violent offenders, it is most useful to use with serial killers. This process is actually viewed more as a tool to be used in conjunction with other methods, once traditional investigative tools have failed to produce results. This process is used in order to determine what sort of offender an…

FBI program – the Crime Classification Manual. The manual linked the different projects the BSU conducted and detailed the subgroups of homicide, arson, rape, and sexual assault. Each subgroup was followed by detailed examples and material about victimology, distinctive investigative tactics, crime scene indicators, and typical forensic…

Political Analysis of the Victims of Crime Act 1984 The Victims of Crime Act is a social policy that is unique in that it has garnered mass appeal from stakeholders with very little opposition. With issues affecting crime and victimization, there are many stakeholders with the primary stakeholders being: the victims of crime, criminal justice officials and agencies (including law enforcement and on to the appellate process), and service providers. The wide range of support for the Victims…

Synopsis In the book Victims as Offenders, Miller exposes the failure of the criminal justice system in protecting victims of domestic violence and urges criminal justice agencies including, the police, courts, and corrections, to rethink its incident-driven nature, pro-arrest and mandatory arrest policies. These policies limit discretion and often leave victims vulnerable to manipulation by their abusers who have found a way to use and manipulate the criminal justice system to their advantage.…

Dynamics of Domestic Violence Domestic violence, also know as intimate partner violence, includes physical, psychological, and financial harm caused in an intimate partnership (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). The Clifford Burns case is a tragic example of domestic violence and demonstrates Lenore Walker’s cycle theory of violence. The theory attempts to explain the pattern of abuse involved in domestic violence (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). According to Wallace and Roberson (2014), there are three…

Discrimination Discrimination is a world wide case going on that nobody has ever gotten right or wrong. There has and always will be Racism going on around the world because people have the freedom to talk and people offend with their hateful words. Weather it is intentional or not, people discriminate against each other. It’s a natural thing that humans do because it’s the ways some of us are born and raised.The fight against discrimination has been an ongoing process and in order for us to…

Our fears and worries about ‘crime’ is highly managed by powerful groups; which may also give justifying reasons as to why the police exist. The study of the ‘fear of crime’ is relatively new and was created after moral panics. It also stems from victimology; a physiological effect after their experience. After the first victim study was taken by Sparks in 1997. The information that society is given about ‘crime’ is very much contradictory. At the same time what makes us fearful of the world,…

America the Free Home of the: Stigma Why has the stigma of rape victims not changed in modern society? According to the Encyclopedia of Rape, “rape has always been a part of human culture” (Smith IX). Rape is defined as the unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim or to seize, take, and carry off by force. Even though…

Abstract This case study examines Jack the Ripper and the horrible acts of violence he committed in the East End of London during 1888 where five women were murdered. These murders received so much media coverage that what would have been the terrible tragedy of five people being murdered became one of the most famous series of murders and the killer became one of the most terrifying of all time. During this case study, I will describe some current techniques that could have been used in the…