DEFINITION OF THE TERM ‘VICTIM’. The word “victim” has its roots in many ancient languages that covered a great distance from northwestern Europe to the southern tip of Asia and yet had a similar linguistic pattern: victima in Latin; and‚ vinak ti in Sanskrit (Webster’s 1971). In the original meaning of the term‚ a victim was a man or animal put to death during a religious ceremony in order to appease some supernatural power or deity. Over centuries‚ the term has picked up additional meanings. Now
Premium Crime Criminology Criminal law
Performance Profiling: According to Butler (1996) Performance Profiling is based on a model of human behaviour called Personal Construct Theory. It is a way of understanding how athletes rate the skills and qualities of their own performance in relation to their sport (Butler‚ 1996). Clark (2005) states Performance profiling is useful to identify an athletes’ strengths and weaknesses and is also useful for the implementation of goal setting strategies and performance enhancing strategies. The Performance
Premium Criminal law Police Crime
Barangay Profiling System (A Computer Information Service represents a giant leap in computerized system of barangay transactions and records handling) Submitted to: Engr. Janalan Inggal (Instructor) Submitted by: Marlaysia P. Matos Monique Carl Hojilla Alsarif Y. Omar (Researchers) CHAPTER 1 Introduction Barangay Upper Calarian‚ Zamboanga City 1.1 Introduction The findings of the study will contribute to our understanding of urbanization‚ local governance and
Premium Local government Computer Personal computer
Minimum Wage Increase The minimum wage must be raised today because the cost of living has gone up drastically. Education is essential today‚ and that price tag has increased drastically in the past twenty years as well. People should not have to fight for equal pay for equal work. Companies should be forced to pay their workers what they deserve‚ and that is more than minimum wage is now. With our new technology and the technology in the future work is harder and more complicated. A minimum
Premium Minimum wage Wage Employment
A Decade of Organizational Change at Unilever A DECADE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AT UNILEVER 7 November 2012 • Originally founded in 1872‚ and incorporated in 1929‚ Unilever was facing a difficult time when upon their discovery that the organizational architechture and strategy they were employing was not benefiting the company. • The company was under a decentralized structure for generations. o Managers looking for a change o The decision was to go global • It was mid-1990
Premium 21st century Multinational corporation Corporation
Jeremy Breland 801 5/4/13 Task 2 Essay The 1920’s was a decade full of many things becoming popular‚ such as dancing‚ sports‚ radio‚ new fashion styles‚ and also someone making history by flying across the Atlantic Ocean. The 1920’s was a prosperous (successful) decade. The 1920’s was also an unprosperous (unsuccessful) decade. Based on article 10‚ it shows that the 1920’s was a prosperous decade that proved to show that America has a lot to look forward to in the future. Also
Premium Roaring Twenties United States World War II
and Victim services. Even though I am in the law enforcement option‚ the number of topics I have studied will help me throughout my years in any law enforcement job opportunity. What I learned about and enjoyed the most are victim rights and services provided. Victim impact statements are something I feel extremely strong about because they are the last empowering statement one has control of towards their offender. An offender should not have the choice if they want to hear the victim impact
Premium Learning High school Education
concern to identify victims who may have contributed to their own victimisation.” (Marsh‚ I. Melville‚ G. 2009) the Main theories to arise from this perspective are victim precipitation‚ victim culpability‚ victim proneness and lifestyle. All these theories focus on patterns of victimisation. The lifestyle theory‚ “developed by Michael Hindelang‚ Michael Gottredson and James Garofalo‚ Attempt to explain why certain groups of people for example‚ youths‚ males‚ the poor‚ singles‚ racial/ethnic minorities
Premium Criminology Crime Victimology
Discuss approaches to profiling There are three approaches to criminal profiling; the British approach‚ the US approach and Geographical Profiling. The US approach is a top down approach which means they start with the big parts of the case and work down to the smaller things involved. The approach was invented by the FBI in the 1970’s when they first looked at the family backgrounds‚ personalities‚ behaviours‚ crimes and motives of serial killers who had sexual aspects to their crimes. They
Premium Crime Criminology Police
infamous serial killer‚ sadly he would not be the last. All throughout the 20th century‚ infamous serial killers like Ted Bundy‚ Ed Gein‚ Pedro Lopez‚ and the Zodiac killer killed dozens of people. Eventually the FBI started using a new investigative tool to help catch serial offenders called offender profiling. Profiling has gained popularity in recent years due to popular movies and TV shows like Criminal Minds‚ but is profiling really effective in
Premium Crime Serial killer Murder