CRM 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boxing Day Shooting, Innocent Victim, Crime Prevention
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The emergence of victimology as a eld of study. Early as 15th century living creature that was killed, o ered sacri ced. 1690: someone who was tortured, hurt, killed. 1718: someone who was oppressed or taken advantage of. 1830: someone who experiences injury, harm, loss or hardship: de ntion (scott, 2011, 2) A person who is killed, injured or otherwise harmed by another as a result of an accident or other event or as a result of a crime . A person who is taken advantage of. A person who su ers harm as a result of an voluntary undertaking: legal de nitions. The corrections and conditional release act (ccra) 1992/2015. In respect of an o ence, means an individual who has su ered physical or emotional harm, property damage or economic loss, as a result of the commission of an o ence (ccra,2,