Chapter One

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Chapter One

• The Rediscovery of Crime Victims
• and the Rise of Victimology

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History of the Victim

• Definition then and now
• Victims place in the legal system

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Rediscovery of Crime Victims

• Impact of social movements
• Law-and-order movement
• Womens movement
• Civil rights movement
• Role of the media

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Victimology

• What is victimology?
• Objectivity
• Who is our victim?
• From victim to victimizer
• Social reaction to victimization
• Research bias

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Media v. Privacy

• What makes a case media material?
• What constitutional issues are involved?
• How does society balance the rights of all?

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Victimology or Criminology

• What do criminologists study?
• How are victimologists different?
• Approaches within victimology

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Victimologists

• What do they want to learn about?
• How do they conduct their research?
• How does victimology help us rediscover victims?
• What are the implications of rediscovering a
  group of victims?

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