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Victimology Insights for Forensic Experts

Victimology is the scientific study of the psychological effects of crime on victims and their interaction with offenders and the legal system. It examines victim patterns and tendencies and how factors like class, race, and sexual orientation affect public and legal perceptions of victims. Victimology studies three main categories of victims - primary victims who are directly harmed, secondary victims who witness the crime, and related victims who have a relationship to the primary victim. The field helps forensic psychologists understand victim risk factors to aid in crime prevention and help law enforcement and the legal system understand different types of victims.

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Victimology Insights for Forensic Experts

Victimology is the scientific study of the psychological effects of crime on victims and their interaction with offenders and the legal system. It examines victim patterns and tendencies and how factors like class, race, and sexual orientation affect public and legal perceptions of victims. Victimology studies three main categories of victims - primary victims who are directly harmed, secondary victims who witness the crime, and related victims who have a relationship to the primary victim. The field helps forensic psychologists understand victim risk factors to aid in crime prevention and help law enforcement and the legal system understand different types of victims.

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Victimology

Victimology is the scientific study of the psychological effects of crime and the relationship between
victims and offenders

Victimology examins victim patterns and tendencies

It studies how victims interact with police and legalsystem

It analyses how factors of class ,race,sexual oriatation affect the perception of the victim by different
constituents including the public,courtsystem and media.

In victimology,avictim is any person who has been harmed by a perpetrator ,,and perpetrators or
offender are individuals who have commited a crime.

Victim classifications.

Victimology is concerned with three categories of victims, forexample primary,secondry,and related


victims. Thi is because crime creates a ripple effect depending on the severality of the offence.

The following are the three main types of victims discussed in the study of victimology.

Primary victims.

Individuals who are injured or otherwise directly affected by a crime commited against them.

Secondary victims..

These are the people who are present at the scene of the crime and may be injured as a result of
witnessing it.

Related victims

These are the people who are dependent on primary victim have close relationship with primary victim
or connected to the victim in the same other way, forexample the neighbours of the robbery victim
would be considered related victim if the crime occurred on their street.

FORMS OF VICTIOLOGY

Penal victimology : it focuses on the role of the victim inrelation to social forces that lead up to and
follow criminal acts that are defined by criminal law.

Theoratical victimology: it focuses on data collection analysis and the theory formulation .in doing
several theoretical models have been advanced to explain variation in victimization risk,and repeat
victimization.these theoretical models focus primarily on victim demographic as wel as victim offender
interaction and relation ships.
General victimology: it involves broader focus on the study of victims not just the victims of crime.It
includes the study of five types of victimization ie criminal,self,social environmental,technological and
natural victimizaytion.

Critical victimization: is interested in how crimes are defined as wel as why some victims are over
looked or ignored by both the criminal justice system and the society as awhole.

How does victimology help the practice of forensic psychology

The field of victimology provide forensic psychology professionals with new understandings they can
apply to multiple areas of the criminal justice system.

Crime prevention: certain risk factors can make you more likely to be avictim of crime.thesae include
every thing from your age to yopur invcome level.These risk factors can change depending on the type
of crime.Victimology studies these risk factors and forensic psychology professionals use the research to
help gpovenment agencies and non profit development programmes aimed at decreasing the risk of
crime among high high risk groups.

Low enforcement: Amember of low enforcement

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