Elected Officials: Enacting Laws Named after Victims Legislators engaged in the political process of enact- ing new laws have helped to rediscover specific groups and address their plight. Starting in the 1980s, federal, state, and local representatives real- ized that if they proposed a new law and named it after someone who had suffered terribly […]
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How effective and influential have the victo- ries of these campaigns really been? Similarly, liberal activists in the civil rights movement focused their energies on opposing entrenched racist beliefs and discriminatory prac- tices that encouraged members of the white major- ity to intimidate, harass, and attack people of color. Over the decades since the 1950s,
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Social Movements: Taking Up the Victims’ Cause Aside from suffering harm at the hands of criminals, victims as a group may have very little else in com- mon. They differ in terms of age, sex, race/ethnic- ity, religion, social class, political orientation, and many other important characteristics. Therefore, it has been difficult to organize them
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SUGGESTED RESEARCH PROJECTS 1. Perform a keyword search of a comprehensive database of magazines and newspaper articles and blog postings to discover whether the term victimology is still being misused and confused with the ideology of victimism. 2. Use a comprehensive database of magazines and newspaper articles to determine whether any cases currently in the
SUGGESTED RESEARCH PROJECTS 1. Perform a keyword search of a comprehensive database of magazines and newspaper articles and blog postings to discover whether the term victimology is still being misused and confused with the ideology of victimism. 2. Use a comprehensive database of magazines and newspaper articles to determine whether any cases currently in the
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CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS 1. How should the police and the public react when hardcore criminals, such as mobsters, drug dealers, and street gang members fight among themselves and become casualties of violence? 2. Generate a list of questions about stabbings that would be of great interest to a victimologist working within (a) an anthropological frame-
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS 1. How should the police and the public react when hardcore criminals, such as mobsters, drug dealers, and street gang members fight among themselves and become casualties of violence? 2. Generate a list of questions about stabbings that would be of great interest to a victimologist working within (a) an anthropological frame-
Should bystanders be required to notify the police about serious crimes that they directly witness? QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND DEBATE 1. Why should victimologists strive for objectivity rather than automatically adopt a pro-victim bias? 2. Give several examples of the kinds of research questions that victimologists find interesting and the kinds of studies they carry
In what ways are victimology and criminology similar, and in what ways do they differ? QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND DEBATE 1. Why should victimologists strive for objectivity rather than automatically adopt a pro-victim bias? 2. Give several examples of the kinds of research questions that victimologists find interesting and the kinds of studies they carry
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Give several examples of the kinds of research questions that victimologists find interesting and the kinds of studies they carry out. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND DEBATE 1. Why should victimologists strive for objectivity rather than automatically adopt a pro-victim bias? 2. Give several examples of the kinds of research questions that victimologists find interesting and