WEEK OF
TOPIC AND READING
QUESTIONS
9/4
VICTIMIZATION: WHAT, WHO, HOW MUCH, NEW TYPES
Introduction: Course goals; syllabus; academic misconduct
* What is crime * Who are crime victims * What are the
elements of the crime incident *Before, during, and after
KARMEN: INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER 1
ONLINE: WHAT IS THE OFFICE OF THE VICTIMS OF CRIME?
READING:
BROWSER:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/factshts/ovcfact.htm
RETRIEVE:
ovcfact.htm
9/11
Victimization: Understanding how rates are calculated,
and what they mean
KARMEN, CHAPTER 2
9/18
Victimization: Rates and the idea of differential risk
READING:
PDF: CV98.PDF
Pay especially close attention to the following
tables: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9
TEST 1
9/25
Thinking about victimization costs
ONLINE:
BROWSER:
Victim Costs and Consequences A New Look (LONG
VERSION: ONLY UP THROUGH P. 19 - second one by this title - PLEASEA
DO NOT PRINT OUT WHOLE ARTICLE! UNLESS YOU PROMISE TO READ IT!)
available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/infores/victims/
PDF: VICTCOST2.PDF
10/02
Theories for understanding the victimization event:
routine activities theory, lifestyles, victim "provocation,"
ecological
KARMEN , CHAPTER 3
TEST 2
10/9
More on theories of crime; Beginning to consider special issues: Campus Crime, and Campus Victims
Sloan, Fisher and Cullen (1997) Assessing the student right to know and campus security act of 1990 Crime and Delinquency 43 148-168.
ONLINE:
PDF: CAMPUSCRIME.PDF
Look at actual campus crime statistics:
ONLINE:
PDF: campuscrime97.pdf
10/16
More on on campus crime reporting and campus crime victims rights
ONLINE:
BROWSER:Bryan
Nisenfeld
http://www.providencephoenix.com/archive/features/98/01/08/BRYAN.html
FILE: bryan
Other recommended, not required
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa/ch21-8cc.htm
Increases on specific campuses
Differences in reporting practices
First
Nisenfeld article
http://www.providencephoenix.com/archive/features/97/06/12/MISSING.html
10/22
Stalking
ONLINE: Stalking in America: Findings From the
National Violence Against Women Survey
BROWSER: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/victdocs.htm
PDF: stalking.pdf
TEST 3
10/29
UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS
Overview of the consequences of victimization:
psychological, social, economic. Using the stress perspective to
understand impact of crime
Issues of: Social Support, Belief in a Just World
ONLINE:
Specifying the Buffering Hypothesis: Support, Strain,
and Depression. Pamela Braboy Jackson (1992) Social
Psychology Quarterly, 55 363-378.
JUST READ THE INTRO, UP TO PAGE 368.
PDF: buffering.pdf
11/6
WHAT THE SYSTEM CAN DO: THE SYSTEM, VICTIMS,
RIGHTS, AND ROLES
An Overview of Different System Roles for the Victim
READ: KARMEN CHAPTER 4
11/13
Victim and Witness Intimidation and its Prevention
ONLINE:
Victim and Witness Intimidation: New Developments and
Emerging Responses
BROWSER: http://www.ncjrs.org/courdocs.htm;
you will see the document listed. Documents are arranged alphabetically.
PDF: WITINTIM.PDF
Protection orders
RECOMMENDED READING (I will be covering
some of this in class):
ONLINE:
Legal Interventions in Family Violence: Research
Findings and Policy
Read the following chapters:
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Civil Protection Orders: Legislation, Current Court Practice, and Enforcement (Peter Finn and Sarah Colson) PAGES 43-47
- The Effectiveness of Civil Protection Orders
(Susan Keilitz, Paula Hannaford, and Hillery S. Efkeman) PAGES 47-49
- Effects of Restraining Orders on Domestic Violence Victims (Adele Harrell and Barbara Smith) PAGES 49-51
BROSWER: : http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/courdocs.htm
PDF: legalinternfamily.pdf
WARNING - please do NOT
print out the whole document - it is 89 pages!!!
TEST 4
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11/20
REPEAT VICTIMIZATION
ONLINE:
Laycock and Pease "Revictimization: Reducing the
heat on hot victims"
BROWSER:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/revictim.pdf
PDF: revictim.pdf
RECOMMENDED: Kingma (1999) "Repeat victimization
of victims of violence 1971-1995" Journal of interpersonal violence
PDF: repeat1.pdf
11/27
Compensation and restitution
READ: KARMEN, Ch. 6 UP TO 291
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12/4
Compensation (continued)
Mediation
Neighborhood justice centers
READ: KARMEN, Ch. 6 p. 292 to end; CHAPTER 7
12/11
THIS WEEK THERE IS CLASS ON MONDAY (12/11) AND
WEDNESDAY (12/13)
TEST 5 WED 12/13 OR 12/14
COMPETENCIES: THURSDAY 12/14/00 8:30 - 10:30 AM