The Basis for Victim Compensation According to Victimology‚ victim compensation takes place when “the state‚ rather than the perpetrator‚ reimburses the victim for losses sustained at the hands of the criminal” cite. Advocates of victim compensation believe it’s the government’s obligation to compensate citizens who suffer harm‚ and they justify this view by using two distinct philosophical positions as a basis for their reasoning: The social contract and the notion of social welfare. The Social
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Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Eric Lemar AJS/502 February 2‚ 2015 William Miller Crime Prevention through Environmental Design When Crimes are commited and we hear about them on the news‚ we often receive basic information on the crime including who‚ what‚ when‚ and where. We however never are given information as to why this may have happened. As both Police Departments and Researchers study the crime questions always arise as to what could be done to prevent it
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Note: 1. 2. 3. Environmental Law Environmental Law (9642) (9642 A) Labour & Industrial Law-II (9643) Property Law (9644) Equity & Trust (9645) Right to Information Law (Including Media & law) (9632) History – II (9673) Penology & Victimology (9646) Information Technology (9633) (Cyber Law|) Before answering the question paper‚ the candidates should ensue that they have been supplied the correct question paper. Complaints in this regard‚ if any‚ shall not be entertained after the Examination
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Outline three major features of the positivist theory approach to crime? Positivism is a theory of knowledge which states that science is based upon theories that have been derived solely upon empirical evidence. The positivist theory approach to crime consists of three major features which include biological‚ psychological and social positivism. Biological: The biological component of positivism seeks to examine data from sources such as twin studies‚ family studies‚ genetic patterns and biochemical
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into account the that a victim may need more than a face-to-face meeting‚ or an apology from the offender who wronged them‚ or possibly traumatized them. Susan Herman spoke about restorative justice’s shortcomings at the International Symposium on Victimology. She gave numerous examples of the long term services a victim might need that victim offender mediation does not provide. Some of these examples are providing substance abuse treatment for someone who has turned to drugs after a traumatic
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Psychology” (Varela‚ J. G.). After it was introduced‚ Psychologists began to help in all kinds of ways. Canada has led the groundbreaking research into the major fields of forensic psychology‚ including such fields as eyewitness memory‚ psychopathy‚ victimology‚ criminal behavior‚ rehabilitation‚ and risk assessment. These fields all help the justice system convict the right person for the right crime. One of the ways forensic psychologists help the court system is when witnesses testify in court‚ forensic
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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‚ the "father" of victimology‚ discovered there was a strong relationship between victims and offenders. Which in my opinion is the most objective and less confusing in all of the types of victim typology classifications; not to mention that‚
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SCLY4 Crime and Deviance with Theories & Methods Past Papers Use the following past papers to practise your exam writing techniques and aid your revision. Make sure you look at the mark scheme for each question to assess your answer. Also check the ‘model answers’ from students to see where good AO1 and AO2 marks were scored. Crime and Deviance Different theories of crime‚ deviance‚ social order and social control. The social distribution of crime and deviance by age‚ ethnicity
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community: The rationale for popular culture interventions. Violence Against Women‚ 6‚ 533 Poussaint‚ A. J. (1972). Why blacks kill blacks. New York: Emerson Hall. Poussaint‚ A. J. (1983). Black on black homicide: A psycho-political perspective. Victimology‚ 8‚ 161-169. doi: 10. 1177/10778010022182010. Washington‚ T. A. (2002). The homeless need more than just a pillow‚ they need a pillar: An evaluation of the transitional housing program. Families in Society‚ 83(2)‚ 183-188. Wertheimer‚ R. &
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What is the Evidence Base for Analyzing Crime? Notes prepared for CRM1300 by Irvin Waller (abstracted from two key sources)1 The evidence base for analyzing crime is fraught with problems‚ particularly in Canada‚ where the evidence comes almost exclusively from Statistics Canada‚ which provides limited data on • • • trends in administrative data on crime known to‚ and recorded by‚ police (Uniform Crime Reports); rates of victimization from the General Social Survey but only every five years (GSS
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