SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimology, Lightning, Natural Disaster

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Originally derived from criminology in the 60s and 70s. Victimizing someone = involves inflicting pain on other people: physical, psychological, economic, can be done to one person or a group of victims, corrections and conditional release act 1992 which they exist. Victimology = victim focused study of victims and the social context in. Primary victim person who suffers (you) Secondary victim people who suffer from your suffering (family: black people were discriminated against thought to not be human, thus have no rights therefore victimization did not occur. When you give someone rights, you recognize them as a human being. People can be victimized according to national/international laws. The presuppositions of victimology: have pain and suffering bestowed on you, have the status of a full human being (rights, must be caused by a moral/rational being that knows right and wrong. Harm (physical or psychological), (cid:498)(arm according to corrections and. Conditional release act (cid:523)(cid:883)99(cid:884)(cid:524): physical or psychological pain(cid:499)