WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Victimology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Hate Crime
11 Nov 2011
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Chapter 4: victims and victimization victims viewed as the passive receptors of a criminal"s anger, greed or frustration wrong place at the wrong time victimology: the study of a victim"s role in a criminal transaction. Insurance bureau of canada says that auto theft accounts for 13 percent of all property crime in. Productivity losses due to injury, medical costs, psychological pain, and emotional trauma also take their toll. Crime makes people feel unsafe and decreases their quality of life. Victims may suffer serious physical injury requiring medical treatment. May suffer more victimization at the hands of the justice system. Subjected to insensitive questioning by the police (innuendos, suspicion that the victims were somehow at fault) Victims" property may never be recovered (spends along time as evidence in court) Spousal abuse: victims suffer an extremely high prevalence of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
