CRM 202 Lecture 1: CRM202 - Lecture 1.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 202
• Professor: Tammy Landau

Document Summary

Lecture 1: course details, themes and issues course outline posted on blackboard, note: you cannot use last year"s text you must get the second edition of challenging. Notions: historical and contemporary role of the victim in the cjs, emergence of victims rights movement, cbc podcast - the current- victims rights in canada: sharon rosenfelt (http://www. cbc. ca/thecurrent/episode/2011/09/26/victims-rights-in-canada-sharon- rosenfeldt/, concerns associated with the victims rights movement. Victims and their relatives controlled the extent of retribution and, consequently, the extent of their satisfaction with the punishment meted out to the offender (mcshane and. Victims lost the important right to determine the essence of a transgression and the state began to use law to define offenses independent of the victim"s sense of harm. From the perspective of traditional victimology, this point marked the beginning of neglect of the victim (mcshane and williams, 1992, p. 260).