CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Victimology, Universal Health Care, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

Chapter 7: victimology, victim services, and victim rights in canada. The ideal victim (someone who is readily given status as victim or seen as victim by those around them: weak, carrying out respectable project. In wrong place: victimized by stranger, strong enough to make his/her case known, non-ideal victims, people who have to fight to be recognized as a victim not clear or there are confounding variables in their victimization. 8 core needs of crime victims: recognition, recognized that they were harmed; real crime to real people. Implementation: should be a way to implement these rights and services with consequences for. Origins of victimology and international standards not doing so: 1960s, advocacy groups, policy changes, police operating changes, victim/witness assistance programs, rape crisis centers, victim offender mediation/rj programs, victimization surveys. I(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al mo(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) vi(cid:272)ti(cid:373)"s (cid:396)ights: 1979: world society of victimology formed, 1985: un adopted landmark resolution, goals: balances offenders with needs of victims.