CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Homicide, Embezzlement

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Emergence of the state as the victim. Criminal vs. civil law: the wrong is done on society, represented by the victim, civil law disputes. Victims lost the important right to determine the essence of transgression and the state began to use law to define offences independent of the victim"s sense of harm. From the perspective of traditional victimology, this point marked the beginning of neglect of the victim . We must protect individuals accused persons when faced by criminal allegations by the state by creating barriers to the exercise of state power. Role of the victim in the due process model. As a witness in the criminal process. Victim is just another witness; primary witness limited in the post-conviction stage. Findings about crime news content (sacco and kennedy, p. 27) Crime news items typically involved reports of individual crimes; robbery, assault.

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