Victim Typologies Rachel Walker Kaplan University Deviance and Violence CJ 266-01 January 17‚ 2012 Sellin and Wolfgang have discussed five different typologies of victimization. The five different typologies are primary‚ secondary‚ tertiary‚ mutual‚ and no victimization. In this paper‚ I will briefly define and the different typologies and follow each one with a proper example. Following this‚ I will conclude my paper with definitions and differences between criminology and victimology
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Victim Typologies Criminology and Victimology Mary Caplette CJ266 2/20/2012 There are five types of victim typologies that Selin & Wolfgang offer. The list consists of Primary Victimization‚ Secondary Victimization‚ Tertiary Victimization‚ Mutual Victimization‚ and No Victimization. Below I will describe each in a detailed manner. I would like to start with Primary Victimization. That is described as a one person target. What that refers to is that it is personalized or an
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seventeen were less likely to be victims of crimes at school; • Students living in families that had moved three or more times in the preceding 5 years were twice as likely to have experienced a criminal victimization; • Students in families with annual incomes of fifty thousand or more were more likely to be victimized‚ as opposed those students whose families with annual incomes of less than ten thousand; • Public high school students were more likely to be crime victims than
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The victim typologies are classifications developed by several authors to study the role of the victim in the conflict that had it as a passive subject. Victims should not be considered as inert‚ immovable and applied mechanical way categories‚ since each fact must be analyzed individually according to the special and particular characteristics of the case. Typologies work in order to bring together in large groups those more meaningful characteristics of people defined as victims. Benjamin Mendelsohn
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suggested that a serial murderer must kill at least two victims in temporally unrelated events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believed it is the killing of three or more separate murders with a cooling off period from a few days to years (Ressler‚ Burgess & Douglas‚ 1988); whilst‚ Dietz (1986) argued that a minimum of five murders must be committed. This essay aims to outline the FBI (1985) and the Holmes and DeBurger (1988) typologies of serial murder and critically evaluate with reference
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Typology of School Shootings Definition and typology: Studies of school shootings have been conducted in a variety of disciplines‚ including sociology‚ psychology‚ and media studies. However‚ to date there is no unified body of knowledge about such events. In an effort to synthesize past studies‚ and to orient future studies in school shootings‚ this article offers a typology for understanding the varieties of school shooting incidents‚ including rampages‚ mass murders‚ terrorist attacks
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1. The subject of comparative typology and its aims. Comparative typology‚ as the notion itself reveals‚ represents a linguistic subject of typology based on the method of comparison. Like typology proper Comparative typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on their dominant or common phonetically‚ morphological‚ lexical and syntactical features. Comparative typology may equally treat dominant or common features only‚ as well as divergent features only
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The Miles and Snow Typology Excerpted from Barney‚ J.B. & Griffin‚ R.G. "The management of organizations: Strategy‚ structure‚ behavior." Houghton Mifflin‚ 1992. Prospector Raymond Miles and Charles Snow suggest that business level strategies generally fall into one of four categories: prospector‚ defender‚ analyzer‚ and reactor. An organization that follows a prospector strategy is a highly innovative firm that is constantly seeking out new markets and new opportunities and is oriented
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A TYPOLOGY OF HEALTH AND PROBLEMS IN FAMILY HEALTH PRACTICE Criteria Observed Not Observed Remarks First Level Assessment I. Presence of Health Threats – conditions those are conducive to disease‚ accident of failure to realize one’s health potential. Examples of these are the following: A. Family history of hereditary condition disease‚ e.g.‚ diabetes B. Threat of cross infection from a communicable disease care C. Family size beyond what family resources can adequately provide
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Wolfgang Kohler Psychology 422 Wolfgang Kohler was born in Reval‚ Estonia in 1887. Both of Kohler’s parents were of German decent‚ and shortly after he was born‚ Kohler and his moved to Wolfenbuttell‚ Germany. The importance of education was introduced to Kohler earlier in life. His father was a schoolmaster‚ his sisters were nurses and educators‚ and Wilhelm‚ his older brother‚ was a scholar. As a child Kohler loved both the outdoors and classical music (Dahl‚ 2005). He even learned how to play
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