COMPARING VICTIMOLOGY TO CRIMINOLOGY
Victimology is an interdisciplinary field that benefits from the contributions of sociologists, psycholo- gists, social workers, political scientists, doctors, nurses, criminal justice officials, lawyers, spiritual leaders, and other professionals, volunteers, advo- cates, and activists. But academically and organiza- tionally, victimology is best conceived of as an area of specialization within criminology, on par with other fields of intensive study, such as delinquency, drug abuse, and penology. All these subdisciplines merit elective courses and textbooks of their own in colleges and graduate programs. In other words, criminology is the older parent discipline and vic- timology is the recent offshoot.
Criminology can be defined as encompassing the scientific study of illegal activities, offenders, their victims, criminal law and the justice system, and societal reactions to the crime problem.COMPARING VICTIMOLOGY TO CRIMINOLOGY
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