SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Routine Activity Theory, General Social Survey, Ancient Germanic Law
16 Jan 2017
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Victimization can create the condition for a wide range of adverse outcomes including: antisocial behavior. Those who have been victims of abuse/and or neglect as children are at increased risk of becoming offenders themselves of committing certain types of crime such as: sexual offences. Victimology: a sub-field of criminology that focuses on the relationship between victims and perpetrators of crimes, against the backdrop of social institutions such as the criminal justice system. Wergeld ( man money ): in germanic law those who cased the injury or death of a person were required to pay compensation. In time this system was replaced by harsh physical punishment (the death penalty) The early victimologists as mendelsohn (1937) characterized them, were concerned mostly with theorizing the cause of crime including victim"s role. Feminist movement was drawing attention to the issues of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and how the legal system had failed female victims.
