Victim's Victimology
Festschrift for Hans Joachim Schneider
Victimology at the Transition From the 20th to the 21st Century.
Essays in Honor of Hans Joachim Schneider
Dedicated on the Occasion of the Xth International Symposium on Victimology in Montreal, Canada 6-11 August 2000 By the Executive Committee of World Society of Victimology to the Founding President of WSV
Edited by Paul C. Friday and Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff
2000 Shaker Verlag in cooperation with WSVP World Society of Victimology Publishing Monchengladbach
Special Print
Needed: Victim 's Victimology
by Sarah Ben-David1
1. Introduction
The principal aim of this article is to trace and evaluate the emergence, development and current status of the attempts to analyze and …show more content…
This view of science ascertains victimology as mainly an effort to explain and observe victimizing events, and to identify their measurable characteristics, without any concern to the value of these characteristics - bad or good, desirable or petrifying30.
Although the positivists drew attention to the victim of crime as an object of study and to the role of the victim, their concern was largely confined to offences of violence between non-strangers to which the victim was considered to have contributed31. Wrongly, they assumed that everybody knew what the term "victim" meanet32, and considered the term victim as being self-evident by the mere fact of suffering an injury by a criminal act, without any consideration to the social meanings attached to the label of 'victim ', versus that of injured, handicapped, raped or robbed …show more content…
International review of victimology, 2: 19-50
Miers, D. 1990. Positive victimology: a critique. International review of victimology, 1: 219-30
Naffine, N. 1995. Gender, crime and feminism. Aldershot: Darthmout O 'Reilly-Fleming, T. 1996. Post-critical criminology. Scarborough: PrenticeHall Canada, Inc.
Quinney, R. 1972. Who is the victim? Criminology, 10: 309-29
Schneider H. J. 1982. The present situation of victimology in the world. In: H. J. Schneider (ed.): The victim in international perspective.(pp. 11-46). Berlin, New-York: Walter de Gruyter.
Schwartz, M. D. .1989. The undercutting edge of criminology. Critical Criminologist, 1-2, 5
Schwartz, M. D. 1997. Does critical criminology have a core? Or just splinters? Critical criminologist newsletter, 7, 2&3: http://sun.soci.niu.edu/ -criticrim/CC/marty .html
Separovic, Z. P. 1985. Victimology, study of victims. Zagreb: Zamobor Novaki bb.
Sered S. 1998. Lecture at the symposium of the Israeli association for feminism studies and gender research,
Shoham, G. S. and Hoffman J. 1991. A primer in the sociology of crime. N.Y.: Harrow and Heston, publishers
Simpson, S. S. 1989. Feminist theory, crime and justice. Criminology, 27,
Victimology at the Transition From the 20th to the 21st Century.
Essays in Honor of Hans Joachim Schneider
Dedicated on the Occasion of the Xth International Symposium on Victimology in Montreal, Canada 6-11 August 2000 By the Executive Committee of World Society of Victimology to the Founding President of WSV
Edited by Paul C. Friday and Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff
2000 Shaker Verlag in cooperation with WSVP World Society of Victimology Publishing Monchengladbach
Special Print
Needed: Victim 's Victimology
by Sarah Ben-David1
1. Introduction
The principal aim of this article is to trace and evaluate the emergence, development and current status of the attempts to analyze and …show more content…
This view of science ascertains victimology as mainly an effort to explain and observe victimizing events, and to identify their measurable characteristics, without any concern to the value of these characteristics - bad or good, desirable or petrifying30.
Although the positivists drew attention to the victim of crime as an object of study and to the role of the victim, their concern was largely confined to offences of violence between non-strangers to which the victim was considered to have contributed31. Wrongly, they assumed that everybody knew what the term "victim" meanet32, and considered the term victim as being self-evident by the mere fact of suffering an injury by a criminal act, without any consideration to the social meanings attached to the label of 'victim ', versus that of injured, handicapped, raped or robbed …show more content…
International review of victimology, 2: 19-50
Miers, D. 1990. Positive victimology: a critique. International review of victimology, 1: 219-30
Naffine, N. 1995. Gender, crime and feminism. Aldershot: Darthmout O 'Reilly-Fleming, T. 1996. Post-critical criminology. Scarborough: PrenticeHall Canada, Inc.
Quinney, R. 1972. Who is the victim? Criminology, 10: 309-29
Schneider H. J. 1982. The present situation of victimology in the world. In: H. J. Schneider (ed.): The victim in international perspective.(pp. 11-46). Berlin, New-York: Walter de Gruyter.
Schwartz, M. D. .1989. The undercutting edge of criminology. Critical Criminologist, 1-2, 5
Schwartz, M. D. 1997. Does critical criminology have a core? Or just splinters? Critical criminologist newsletter, 7, 2&3: http://sun.soci.niu.edu/ -criticrim/CC/marty .html
Separovic, Z. P. 1985. Victimology, study of victims. Zagreb: Zamobor Novaki bb.
Sered S. 1998. Lecture at the symposium of the Israeli association for feminism studies and gender research,
Shoham, G. S. and Hoffman J. 1991. A primer in the sociology of crime. N.Y.: Harrow and Heston, publishers
Simpson, S. S. 1989. Feminist theory, crime and justice. Criminology, 27,