CRM 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Crime Victimization Survey, Jackson Katz, Motor Vehicle Theft

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 601
• Professor: C.J. Hollingshead

Document Summary

Physical, sexual, financial, verbal, and/or emotional abuse between a number of dyadic relationships. Social and health problem: private matter, gender stereotypes/assumptions. Bystander approach: instead of seeing men as perpetrators and women as victims, or women as perpetrators and men as victims, focus on all of us as bystander- those who are not a victim or perpetrator in any situation. Fear of perpetrator retaliation; when women are pregnant and want to leave the toxic and violent relationship. Lenore walker argues that women try to modify their behavior when a man gets violent; eventually it leads up to beating; then there"s a cooling off period. Official record data sources (ucr); uniform crime reports: 50% reported to police, victim offender relationship; not a lot of information. Most of it goes to the national incident-based crime reporting system. Three large studies: national family violence survey (nfvs, national crime and victimization survey (ncvs, national violence against women and men survey (nva/wms)