Victimology
Not offered at Clayton in Semester 2, 1997
Arthur Veno
8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Caulfield and
Clayton
* Prohibited combination: PCE1270
Objectives On successful completion of this subject, students will be expected to have gained a critical understanding of the victim in historical and current social perspectives. The student should be able to critically analyse victim (and crime) statistics; understand victim, offender, community or system blaming and its relationship to definitions of crime and its prevention; delineate the various strategies to alleviate victim trauma in the criminal justice system; identify corporate and state victimisation.
Synopsis This subject analyses the concept of the victim in society. The historical and current conceptions of the victim in the criminal justice system, war/colonisation and corporations is surveyed by academic materials, field visits and guest speakers working in the area. Victim - offender mediation is identified and discussed as is crime prevention. Community based agencies are identified and analysed in the context of theoretical perspectives of blame, shame and reintegration.
Assessment Field visit analysis (3000 words): 40%
*
Tutorial/discussion leadership: 20%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
Recommended texts
Reader available for purchase
Walklate S Victimology: The victim and the criminal justice process Unwin Hyman, 1989
World Wide Web readings
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