Introduction to Victimology: Meaning, Nature & Scope

This book deals with what victimology is and what it focuses on. The book elucidates the categories of victims and expounds on who the fathers of victimology are and the role of criminal justice system in dealing with victims. Victimology is a subject of criminology that studies criminal action from another viewpoint, focusing on the effect of wrongdoing on victims. Victimology gauges crime by studying victimization, designs of victim-offender relationships and the role of the victim within the criminal justice systems. The author explains how the victims contribute to their own victimization by their characteristics. He explains the four most common theories which attempt to expound victimization and its foundations namely, the victim precipitation theory, the lifestyle theory, the deviant place theory and the routine activities theory. Finally, the author deals with approaches to crime prevention. The book is intended to cater for policy makers, security officers, researchers, pre-graduates, graduates and post-graduates who will find this to be a very good tool for their work.