Description
This course presents a comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology, a vital new and, at times, controversial branch of criminology. This course examines the vic-tims? plight, and is careful to place statistics from the FBI?s Uniform Crime Reports and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization in context. This course sys-tematically investigates how victims cur?rently are handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims? rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. Also discussed will be: human trafficking, crimes on campus, identity theft, stalking, motor vehicle theft and prisoners attacked behind bars.